Issue with Archive::Tar

dracos has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Okay, I assume I am missing something if I run the following:

use strict;
use warnings;
use Archive::Tar;
use File::Find;
my @files;
my $pwd = 'C:\Source Code';
find(
    sub {
        if ( $File::Find::name !~ /\.svn/i)
        {
            push @files, $File::Find::name;
        }
    },
    $pwd
);
Archive::Tar->create_archive( 'Test.tbz', COMPRESS_BZIP, @files );

my $tar = Archive::Tar->new;
$tar->write('Test2.tbz', COMPRESS_BZIP);
$tar->add_files(@files);
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The Test.tbz file is created fine with no issues and ends up about 92M.

But when it comes to the Test2.tbz file, I can watch it grow as it should but then before the $tar->add_files(@files); returns the output file shrinks and ends up only about 1k.

I can not figure out what is going wrong I have tried going through the Archive::Tar to try figuring out what I should be doing. But I am getting no where

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Re: Issue with Archive::Tar by GotToBTru (Prior) on Mar 21, 2014 at 15:32 UTC
The write method writes the in-memory archive to disk. You haven't added the files to it yet, so it is writing an empty archive to disk. Reverse your last two steps.	[reply]
Re: Issue with Archive::Tar by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Mar 21, 2014 at 15:33 UTC
It rather looks to me as tho' you're writing before there's anything there i.e. `$tar->write('Test2.tbz', COMPRESS_BZIP); $tar->add_files(@files);` [download] should be `$tar->add_files(@files); $tar->write('Test2.tbz', COMPRESS_BZIP);` [download] Referring to Archive::Tar, we see that `add_files()` only adds files to the in-memory object i.e. not to any file that may have been written using `write()` ... unless, of course, it's nealry beer o'clock on Friday afternoon and I've missed something even more elementary :-) A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Issue with Archive::Tar by dracos (Sexton) on Mar 21, 2014 at 15:40 UTC
Knew I was overlooking the obvious. Thanks	[reply]
Re^3: Issue with Archive::Tar by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Mar 21, 2014 at 17:42 UTC
Not a problem dracos, we all do it ... and I defy anybody to say they don't :-) A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply]