Re^3: A looping question

Ok , your answer has confused me. I take the point about $basedir which I've now declared and also removed the warning and only declared Wanted once. Is find the wrong thing to use to check for the existence of a file ?

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Re^4: A looping question by Erez (Priest) on Sep 10, 2010 at 20:06 UTC
I see what you mean. File::Find isn't about "finding files", but is a tool for recoursing through a directory tree, and performing an action on some/all of the files/directories. To check for the existence of a file/directory you can use the file tests that come with perl itself (http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/-X.html). for example if you have a $path, `-e $path` will return whether the path exists, `-d $path` will return true if the path is of a directory, and `-f $path` will return true if the path is of a file "Principle of Least Astonishment: Any language that doesn’t occasionally surprise the novice will pay for it by continually surprising the expert..	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: A looping question
by Erez (Priest) on Sep 10, 2010 at 20:06 UTC

I see what you mean. File::Find isn't about "finding files", but is a tool for recoursing through a directory tree, and performing an action on some/all of the files/directories.

To check for the existence of a file/directory you can use the file tests that come with perl itself (http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/-X.html). for example if you have a $path, -e $path will return whether the path exists, -d $path will return true if the path is of a directory, and -f $path will return true if the path is of a file

"Principle of Least Astonishment: Any language that doesn’t occasionally surprise the novice will pay for it by continually surprising the expert..

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