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Re: specifying file extension in opendir function

by inman (Curate)
on Nov 16, 2006 at 14:19 UTC ( [id://584467]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to specifying file extension in opendir function

Try the following use of a while loop if it fits in with your application logic. It is a neat short cut that may work for your app. The <pattern> construct uses the glob function internally. Details on the patterns that you can use in File::Glob

while (</apps/inst2/metrica/ON-SITE/backup/schema/*.tdef>){ print; }

The while loop gets to process the files that match the pattern.

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Re^2: specifying file extension in opendir function
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Nov 16, 2006 at 16:18 UTC

    Please, PLEASE ... just use glob.

    /me really wishes perl didn't have the <> construct doing such drastically different things because parsing it right is hard, e.g.

    my $wildcard = File::Spec->catfile(File::Spec->rootdir(), qw(apps inst2 metrica), $some_location, qw(backup schema), '*.tdef' ); while (<$wildcard>) { print; }
    doesn't work. Change the while to:
    for (glob $wildcard) {
    and it's fine.

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