Hello erhan,

(1) In Perl there are two ways to concatenate strings:

  1. The dot operator: see perlop#Additive-Operators
  2. Double-quote interpolation: see perlop#Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators

In the present case, my $result_path = $dir . '/results'; has the same effect as my $result_path = "$dir/results";, so the choice between them is merely stylistic. But as a general rule, it’s best to avoid double-quote interpolation if you don’t need it: see Whats-wrong-with-always-quoting-vars of perlfaq4.

(2) The line next unless -d $subdir; causes the foreach loop to skip to the next iteration (i.e., to ignore the current value of $subdir) unless the current $subdir is a directory (and not a file, a symbolic link, etc.). It uses the -d function which is documented in functions/-X.

(3) The line chdir $dir . '/' . $subdir; contains two more concatenation operators, and is equivalent to:

chdir "$dir/$subdir";

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Hope that helps,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum Iustus alius egestas vitae, eros Piratica,

In reply to Re^3: How to get sub-folder names using Perl? by Athanasius
in thread How to get sub-folder names using perl? by erhan

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