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CP: the C programmer
me: I'm only thirty percent as arrogant as I come across.

$CP in $irc_network #Perl asked a question about matching files ending in '.xls'. I answered with a regex, and $CP messaged me privately.

-!- Irssi: Starting query in $irc_network with $CP
<$CP> Would you mind if I asked you a little more about the file extension?
<$me> you should normally direct such questions to the channel, but go ahead.
<$CP> Thank you, $me.
<$CP> Again, I'm not very familiar with Perl, so I hope I can relay my information accurately and concisely.
<$CP> A friend helped me write some of this, but I need to manipulate it just a little.
<$CP> I have this code that checks a folder for files... and it performs a specified function on that file.
<$CP> But now I want to get more precise and say if the file is a .xls.
<$CP> Would you mind if I pasted you a bit of code?
<$CP> It's about 5 lines.
<$me> Go ahead.
<$CP> opendir(TARGET, $target);
<$CP> Interesting. I cannot paste so easily with Firefox's IRC client.
<$CP> opendir(TARGET, $target);
<$CP> while($file = readdir(TARGET))
<$CP> {
<$CP> next if($file eq ".");
<$CP> next if($file eq "..");
<$CP> &process_new_file($file);
<$CP> }
<$CP> Pretty much that's the gist.
<$CP> But I'd like to process_new_file if the file has the extension .xls
<$CP> How can I do what you told me about $f if $f =~ /[.]xls$/
<$me> you're not a programmer at all, are you?
<$CP> Not with Perl.
<$me> replace all that with:
<$me> process_new_file $_ for <$target/*.xls>;
<$CP> I like C.
<$CP> Heh. :)
<$CP> Thank you, $me

In reply to A conversation with a C programmer by Anonymous Monk

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