BEGIN { push ( @INC, '/usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2/File/') }
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Basename;
use File::Spec::Functions;
use Data::Dumper;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;
use strict;

my $data = data_for_path('/root/excerise_perl/test');
#print Dumper($data);

sub data_for_path {
my ($path) = @_;
my $data = {};
my @queue = ([$path, $data]);

while (my $next = shift @queue) {
   my($path, $ref ) = @$next;
   my $basename = basename ($path);

  $ref->{$basename} = do {
     if (-f $path or -l $path) {undef} 
     else {
        my $hash = {};
        opendir ((my $dh) , $path);
        my @new_paths =map {
           catfile ($path , $_)
           } grep {! /^\.\.?\z/ }  readdir $dh;
           
        unshift @queue , map {[$_, $hash]} @new_paths;
        $hash;
       
       }
     };
}

   $data;
}

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this script is used to print one directory structure. if it is a file, then this values would be "undef", if it is a directory, it would be the hash reference for its child directory. now I run this script in my pc, the result is as below: root@TestMachine:~/excerise_perl# perl data_for_path.pl $VAR1 = { 'test' => { 'file2' => undef, 'file1' => undef, 'dir1' => { 'file3' => undef } } }; the directory have two files named "file1" and "file2", one director named "dir1" that has only one file named "file3". I can't understand this sentence "unshift @queue , map {$_, $hash} @new_paths;" the $hash seems not to be assigned a value, but why is $hash returned? what thing does "map {$_, $hash} @new_paths"? someone can help me to understand this script? thanks a lot!!

In reply to who can help me for a very interesting perl program by Anonymous Monk

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