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Richard, > To: address@hidden > From: "Richard A Ryan" <address@hidden> > Subject: suggestion for a problem with ldmadmin and Perl 5.8 > Organization: UCAR/Unidata The above message contained the following: > Although I've seen a suggestion a bit more elaborate than mine, > for the strange Perl 5.8 infinite split loop problem in ldmadmin, > wouldn't it make more sense to change lines like > > ( @QUEUES ) = split( "[ \t\n]+", `ls $pq_path` ); > > to the simpler and less risky > > @QUEUES = <$pq_path/*>; > > rather than hacking the pattern for the split? It seems people > get as addicted to those silly backtick things as they would to > smoking crack. Thanks for the suggestion. The ldmadmin script has already been modified to eliminate the use of the "@QUEUES" variable altogether. > Richard Ryan Regards, Steve Emmerson