How can it affect the order of the directory processing?
Its effect is that it changes what is passed to the wanted() coderef e.g 
find({
    preprocess => sub { return sort { $b cmp $a } @_ },
    wanted     => \&process_array,
}, @ARGV);

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This will sort the directory listing that process_array() gets in reverse alphabetic order. So basically the preprocess option allows you to change what the wanted() function receives from changing it's order to removing unwanted directory entries.
HTH

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broquaint

update: changed <=> to cmp in the sort() (thanks ariels)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: file::find and ordered output by broquaint
in thread file::find and ordered output by Bjoern

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