I'm finalizing a client socket program. The files are being sent fine, I'd just like to add an error checker for the files before they're sent. My question is on how to best do this. Below is a snippet of code that I'm working with.
for (;;) {
  while (readdir OMSSEND) {
    @conffiles = grep { !/^\./ } readdir(OMSSEND);
  }

  foreach $file (@conffiles) {
    open FILE, "$senddir" . "/" . "$file" or die "Can't open: $!";
    $server = IO::Socket::INET->new(
      PeerAddr => whatever,
      PeerPort => 11,
      Proto    => 'tcp') or die "Can't connect to ...";

    print $server $stx . $padsize or die "Can't send to server $!"; 
    while (<FILE>) {
      print $server $_ or die "Can't send to server $!";
    }
    close FILE;

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I want to grep for errors in the file before the transmission starts, so I thought about writing a sub that looks almost like the main above, by reading in each files lines to an array, then grepping the array. If I find errors, I'll move the file to another directory so it can't be sent. My question is, this seems like alot of extra work to go through to do this, is there another way to search a file all at once before I open it in the above code to start the send process?
Thanks - wileykt

In reply to Grep file before sending through socket by wileykt

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