[lug] Perl question

[Tkil]

>>>>> "Evelyn" == Evelyn Mitchell <efm at tummy.com> writes:

Evelyn> Is there some reaon why none of your test data contains file
Evelyn> extensions? 'pi.jpg' 'theta.gif'?

hm.  short answer:  i knew that '.' wasn't special in the patterns i
wrote, so i didn't test it.

longer answer:  i was more concerned about quoting and newlines than i
was about any printable character.  i did fail to put in any with
spaces, which is a delicate case.

t.