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in thread parse_dir doesn't seem to work

I get the correct list returned (using 5.8.5) from parse_dir. Perhaps there's something it doesn't like about your brand of ls -l? Looks like there's a parameter to parse_dir to make it speak up on unparseable lines... does that help?

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Re^4: parse_dir doesn't seem to work
by nysus (Parson) on Jan 03, 2008 at 18:17 UTC
    Yeah, that's it. Getting "Can't parse" errors. Weird. Here's a typical line: 
    Can't parse: -rw-r--r--  1 root            root            15264 2008-
+01-03 12:46 out

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      On my linux box, I can get such a listing via ls -l --time-style=long-iso, which in particular produces the 2008-01-03 date formatting. Do you have an alias for ls that includes a --time-style option?
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      That date format looks odd... Without digging into the File::Listing code, I'd guess that's where it's choking.
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Re^4: parse_dir doesn't seem to work
by nysus (Parson) on Jan 04, 2008 at 02:13 UTC
    Here's what worked for me: 
    $listing = `ls -l --time-style=locale`;

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    Thanks to everyone who chipped in to help me. I'm grateful.

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