Hey Monks, I am just attemmpting to learn to filestat from the llama. I am working off of Chapter 11 in said book, and excercise 1 which states:

Make a program that takes a list of files named on the command line and reports for each one whether its readable, writable, executable, or doesn't exist. (Hint: It may be helpful to have a function that will do all of the file tests for one file at a time.) What does it report about a file that has been chmod-ed to 0? (That is if you are on a Unix system use the command chmod 0 some_file to mark that file as being neither readable, writable nor executable.) In most shells, use a star as the argument to mean all of the normal files in the current directory. That is you should type something like ./ex11-1 to ask the program for the attributes of many files at once.

Iam going to add the rest of the tests once I have it figured out what I'm doing wrong. But this is very preliminary and I don't know why the first test I added is not working.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

sub filetest {
    
    my @answer;
    return "File does not exist"
         unless -e $_;
    

}


while (<>) {

      my @answer =  &filetest($_);
}

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This is the message I get when I try to run the program: Unsuccessful stat on filename containing newline at ./ex1-11 line 8, <> line 1

Also, in the subroutine 'filetest' I have an (as yet) unused array called @answer. Once I have the file tests worked out I intend to fill that array with strings indicating the states of the file tests. Once I have all the data collected I plan to return that array.

Thanks for any help you'd care to dispense!

In reply to Unsuccessful stat on file test by bluethundr

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