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

i have another problem.. i am using -d to test whether it is a directory or not but it is telling me that all my directories are not directories. the only directories it will recognize as directories are NOT directories, and these are the . and .. used to navigate to previous dirs in win32. this is what i get when i run the script: 

. is a directory.
.. is a directory.
Cannot determine filetype of digsol.
here is the filetest section of my script: 

if (-f $i) {
   print OUTPUT "$i is a file.\n";
} elsif (-d $i) {
   print OUTPUT "$i is a directory.\n";
} else {
   print OUTPUT "Cannot determine what $i is.\n";
}
are there any known problems with -d and win32? i have looked around here and other sites and haven't seen any similar problems, maybe i'm just doing something wrong? TIA for any insight you can provide
JR

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Re: another directory question
by jrsmith (Pilgrim) on Apr 28, 2000 at 17:39 UTC
    nevermind i found out what is wrong... -d was testing just the directory name specified by $i when i should have included the path in that like e:/$i or $path$i. thanx anyway :)
[reply]
      Depeding on how long you intend to spend doing stuff in each directory, it might be a good idea to do a chdir into that directory. This would avoid running into problems like the one you just had.

      This is one of those philosofical issues, like what's best:
      • relative links
      • absolute urls
      Each person has a particular way of doing things, but I just tend to think its a matter of what makes things clearer. In your case, it could be: 
      if (-f "$path/$leaf") {
}

# or simply 

chdir($path) || warn();
if (-d $leaf) {
}

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      cheers!
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