help needed with File::Find and arrays.

basarix has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am making my first steps in perl, and i am faced with a lil problem. i need to work with files and dirs, but restricting the files i have to work with. therefore, i used the find2perl utility to make myself a nice perl code that would give me the files i am looking for, but in order to work with them, i need to get them into an array, so i can process them. i am not finding a way to put the results of the find search into an array. I know this is probably something very easy to solve, but i am hopelessly stuck, and need to get it solved soon..... thanx noble monks for your wisdom on this... THanx all, i have solved this issue.... u've all been a good source of help / ideas

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Re: help needed with File::Find and arrays. by RazorbladeBidet (Friar) on Mar 11, 2005 at 15:42 UTC
I'm no File::Find expert, by any means, but this works for me: `... my @list_of_files; File::Find::find( \&add_to_list, $path ); sub add_to_list { push @list_of_files, $File::Find::name if ( /#some criteria# /); } ...` [download] HTH!! -------------- It's sad that a family can be torn apart by such a such a simple thing as a pack of wild dogs	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: help needed with File::Find and arrays. by basarix (Initiate) on Mar 11, 2005 at 15:52 UTC
Thanx.... i will try it asap....	[reply]
Re: help needed with File::Find and arrays. by YuckFoo (Abbot) on Mar 11, 2005 at 16:38 UTC
File::Find::Rule returns a list of files and uses matching criteria similar to the find command. YuckFind `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use File::Find::Rule; use Data::Dumper; my @list = File::Find::Rule->file()->maxdepth(1)->in('.'); print Dumper \@list;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: help needed with File::Find and arrays. by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Mar 11, 2005 at 17:05 UTC
File::Finder has a gather() method that will work for you, or you can look at some of the examples in File::Find::Closures. I try to stay away from global (or file-scoped lexicals) in these sorts of problems. -- brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>	[reply]
Re: help needed with File::Find and arrays. by osunderdog (Deacon) on Mar 11, 2005 at 16:56 UTC
Here is my find example. I use this when I need to remember how to use find. Course I didn't know about File::Find::Rule! Good to know. Read more... (1489 Bytes) *"Look, Shiny Things!"* is not a better business strategy than compatibility and reuse.	[reply] [d/l]