2009/1/14 Shlomi Fish <shlo...@iglu.org.il>: >> What's wrong with using _ instead ? > > Well, I'm storing the result of stat somewhere, and then checking for whether > it's a link or not only later. I guess I can also store the return code of -l > and other things I'm interested in.
That's what _ is for : it stores the result of the last stat or lstat. (see perldoc -f stat) By the way, may I point out that to see if something is a symbolic link, you need lstat. stat does not stat symbolic links, but it stats their targets, so your test will always be false.
