Re: Passing file check operators to a function

Thanks you all, In deed Grandfather gave me exactly what I'm lookin for... I will make sure to provide the right permission operators on the functin call.

Can I apply something similar to check if a certain Directory exists and I also have permissions to create a new file in this Directory?

Peter

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Re^2: Passing file check operators to a function by Zaxo (Archbishop) on Sep 08, 2005 at 03:32 UTC
On unix, the same test on a directory name will indicate you can create a file in the directory. You need write permission on the directory inode to insert a new file's metadata. You may want to test -d where -e is tested above, just to verify it's a directory. I don't know whether the win32 file tests emulate that or not. After Compline, Zaxo	[reply]
Re^2: Passing file check operators to a function by sk (Curate) on Sep 08, 2005 at 04:11 UTC
Modified GrandFather's code a bit so that you don't have to loop through to test `sub checkit { my ($tests, $filename) = @_; my @testList = split ",", $tests; my $teststr = shift(@testList) . " '" . $filename . "'" . " && " . join (' _ && ', @testList) . " _"; return eval ("($teststr)"); return 1; }` [download] Not very clean but at least it saves you too many `stat` calls.	[reply] [d/l] [select]