Re: How do I test whether a file has some contents or not?


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Re: How do I test whether a file has some contents or not?

by ybiC (Prior)

on Oct 15, 2000 at 17:13 UTC ( #36810=note: print w/replies, xml )

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Filetest operators can be found at perlfunc:_X. Just a day or so ago swiftone showed me the "_" shortcut for performing multiple tests on one file. Yet another way to look at it.

if (-s $file && -T _) {
    # do stuff with text file > 0bytes
    }
if (-s $file && -B _) {
    # do stuff with binary file > 0bytes
    }
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