Re: Problem with Find

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~~According to the relevant documentation on CPAN, you need to pass the starting directory as an array. So your invocation of find() should look like this:~~

find (\&pstFind, ($dir) );
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If you want more robust matching for a PST file, you could use the following regex statement instead of what you have:

if ( /\.PST$/i ){
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Re^2: Problem with Find by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 17, 2006 at 18:16 UTC
Actually in that context `($dir)` is no different than `$dir`. In fact you can write `find (\&wanted, $dir1, $dir2, $dir3)`. Remember that Perl flattens lists when passed to a sub. If that were the problem find would fail completely rather than finding the first few files in some directories. If find required an array (reference) rather than a list of directories then the syntax would be: `find (\&wanted, [$dir]);` [download] but find complains about that with "Can't stat ARRAY(0x1e7ac3c): No such file or directory at ...". DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: Problem with Find
by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 17, 2006 at 18:16 UTC

Actually in that context ($dir) is no different than $dir. In fact you can write find (\&wanted, $dir1, $dir2, $dir3). Remember that Perl flattens lists when passed to a sub.

If that were the problem find would fail completely rather than finding the first few files in some directories. If find required an array (reference) rather than a list of directories then the syntax would be:

find (\&wanted, [$dir]);
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but find complains about that with "Can't stat ARRAY(0x1e7ac3c): No such file or directory at ...".

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