Hello monks! Im trying to learn Net:FTP module for checking and downloading updates for my linux box. I have writen the following code
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Net::FTP;
# change preferences to meet your needs
my $ftp_srv = 'ftp.ntua.gr';
my $ftp_usr = 'anonymous';
my $ftp_pass = 'me@somewhere.com';
my $ftp_path = '/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-9.0/';

# the main program
my $con;
$con = Net::FTP->new($ftp_srv, Debug => 1)
    or die "Unable to connect to $ftp_srv\n". $con->message ."\n";
$con->login($ftp_usr,$ftp_pass)
    or die "Cannot login: ". $con->message ."\n";
$con->cwd($ftp_path)
    or die "Cannot change to $ftp_path dir\n".$con->message ."\n";
my @ls = $con->ls('.')
    or die "Cannot perfom ls command\n".$con->message."\n";
#print "$_\n" foreach @ls;
my $what;
foreach $what (@ls) {
    print "$what\n";
    if (-d $what) {
        print "DIR DEBUG\n";
        print "$what is a dir\n";
    }elsif (-f $what) {
        print "FILE DEBUG\n";
        print $what .' is a file '.$con->size($what)."\n";

    }
}

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which does the following
1. Connect to the ftp server
2. Login with anonymous account
3. Change to a directory
4. Get a list of the contect of the directory and store it to an array (called @ls)
5. Check array where is file and where is directory

S**t! we are checking to a list so we CANT see if it is a file or a directory
How can we solve this problem, i cant figure it out

atnonis

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