[pm-h] Perl rename bug?

[G. Wade Johnson]

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 13:03:46 -0700
"Michael R. Davis via Houston" <houston at pm.org> wrote:

> Perl Mongers,
> Is this a bug in rename?  I googled but did not find anything off the
> top. 
> $ perl -e 'my @files=("x", "y"); rename(@files);'
> Not enough arguments for rename at -e line 1, near "@files)"
> Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

It looks like rename has a prototype which makes it require two
scalars. Looking at the documentation for rename, it does not support a
list as a parameter, it only supports two names.

G. Wade

>  
> But this works fine.
>  
> $ perl -e 'my @files=("x", "y"); rename($files[0], $files[1]);'
>  
> Mike
>  
> mrdvt92
>  
> $ perl -v
> This is perl, v5.10.0 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
> Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall
> 


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