Re^2: randomly choosing an alphabetic letter

Hello,

If I would like to choose 4 free drives, and I run the Win32::GetNextAvailDrive() 4 times, it gives me the same drive everytime, not different ones.

Is there a way I can find out more than one available drive?

Thanks

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Re^3: randomly choosing an alphabetic letter by Tanktalus (Canon) on Mar 16, 2005 at 01:15 UTC
What you would want to do, then, is use each one in a loop, rather than getting them ahead of time. That is, rather than: `my @drives = ( Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(), ); do_stuff_with(@drives);` [download] do this: `for (1..4) { my $drive = Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(); do_stuff_with($drive); }` [download] Hopefully, `do_stuff_with()` will net use or something so that the drive becomes unavailable (in use) so the next time through, Win32::GetNextAvailDrive will get a new drive.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^3: randomly choosing an alphabetic letter
by Tanktalus (Canon) on Mar 16, 2005 at 01:15 UTC

What you would want to do, then, is use each one in a loop, rather than getting them ahead of time. That is, rather than:

my @drives = (
  Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(),
  Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(),
  Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(),
  Win32::GetNextAvailDrive(),
);
do_stuff_with(@drives);
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for (1..4)
{
  my $drive = Win32::GetNextAvailDrive();
  do_stuff_with($drive);
}
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do_stuff_with()

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