How does "Give me code" eq "Learning Perl"? Write some code, try it out, find issues, clearly describe the issues here with runable code, then we can help you learn effectively.

This option could generate a very long report and may take a long time.

Why do you think that? Have you tried it? Was the code too slow? Yesterday I wrote a trivial script to crawl a directory structure and count lines of code in source files. It took a few minutes to write and well less than a second to run on a directory structure containing 12 MB of file in 60 folders and 520 files. When you think about the work going on under the hood to get that work done that is insanely fast.

Optimising for fewest key strokes only makes sense transmitting to Pluto or beyond

In reply to Re: perl script to compare two directories by GrandFather
in thread perl script to compare two directories by harangzsolt33

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