Dear Monks,

I am reading though a large set of dated directories with a large number of dates where the number of <date> directories is much larger than the number of parent <dir> directories. There is only one date "dir" per parent in the future--the rest are in the past. I just have to find these future dates. 

dir1 / <date1>
dir1 / <date2>
dir2 / <date3>
dir3 / <date4>

[download]

I am currently using glob("*/*") to loop through all the dates to find all the ones in the future. My glob has become annoyingly slow and I'd like to speed it up. Any ideas how I can use readdir() to return an array of "dir / <date> " of only the future dates

Thank you for your time--always appreciate the help & advice.

Best,

Michael

In reply to reading through dated directories by Anonymous Monk

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.