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Shawn O. Pearce d966e6aa66 Properly handle '0' filenames in import-tars Randal L. Schwartz pointed out multiple times that we should be testing the length of the name string here, not if it is "true". The problem is the string '0' is actually false in Perl when we try to evaluate it in this context, as '0' is 0 numerically and the number 0 is treated as a false value. This would cause us to break out of the import loop early if anyone had a file or directory named "0". Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>	18 years ago
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import-tars.perl	Properly handle '0' filenames in import-tars	18 years ago

Shawn O. Pearce d966e6aa66 Properly handle '0' filenames in import-tars

Randal L. Schwartz pointed out multiple times that we should be
testing the length of the name string here, not if it is "true".
The problem is the string '0' is actually false in Perl when we
try to evaluate it in this context, as '0' is 0 numerically and
the number 0 is treated as a false value.  This would cause us
to break out of the import loop early if anyone had a file or
directory named "0".

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>

18 years ago

import-tars.perl

Properly handle '0' filenames in import-tars

18 years ago