Iterating through Hashes in Files

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

I have a directory full of files, each containing a hash with the same name as the file. (i.e., a file called 'data1.pm' contains a hash called '%data1'.) I need to iterate through some of those files, and mess with the data in the hashes. All the files I need have names in the format *Cmd.pm) (clockCmd.pm, chairCmd.pm, that sort of thing).

So, what's the simplest way to do this? All the file names are known, so I could just use an array holding all the file/hash names and run through that, but I am wondering if there's something simpler or more elegant.

Danke!

Kaiti
Swiss Army Nerd

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Re: Iterating through Hashes in Files by ssandv (Hermit) on Mar 29, 2010 at 20:23 UTC
Angle brackets, in addition to being shorthand for `readline`, also can be used to perform globbing (wildcard expansion). So, `<*Cmd.pm>` will return a list of all the filenames of the format you describe. Ultimately you'll have to "run through" a list/array at some point, but that allows you to get the list dynamically instead of hardcoding it (provided that every file in the directory that matches the wildcard is a file you want to look in).	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Iterating through Hashes in Files
by ssandv (Hermit) on Mar 29, 2010 at 20:23 UTC

Angle brackets, in addition to being shorthand for readline, also can be used to perform globbing (wildcard expansion). So, <*Cmd.pm> will return a list of all the filenames of the format you describe. Ultimately you'll have to "run through" a list/array at some point, but that allows you to get the list dynamically instead of hardcoding it (provided that every file in the directory that matches the wildcard is a file you want to look in).

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