On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 11:57:27PM -0700, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> if (-e $varname) should test for the existance of a file, yes?
yes (-e $varname) will do the test
> perl 5.6.1-3 appears to be returning true when $varname is blank. I get this
> theory because in verbose mode:
must return and always returns false when $var is undef (worksforme perl 5.6.1)
> my $substvars=pkgfile($package,"substvars");
> if (-e $substvars) {
> complex_doit("cat $substvars >>
> debian/${ext}substvars.debhelper");
> }
you can rewrite in a more syntethic way by
complex_doit("cat $substvars >> debian/${ext}substvars.debhelper") if (-e
$substvars);
or
(-e $substvars) && complex_doit("cat $substvars >>
debian/${ext}substvars.debhelper");
yves
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