Hi,

My program has two different modes. When the user in on the first mode, he can only enter one path (c:\mydirectory\file.txt or c:\directory). My job is to make perl get the size of what was entered.
When the user is on the second mode, he not only gives me the path (c:\directory\), but in a textarea, I make him give me a bunch of directories which I will append to c:\directory\ so what I give Perl looks like c:\directory\thedirectoryfromtextarea. What is in the textarea can be files or directories.
What do you recommand I use to get the size that would cover both modes?
As a side note, I tried installing Win32::DirSize and it is telling me it cannot found it but I need to do a "broader search" and when I type search Win32::DirSize it says there is no match for Win32::DirSize. I tried downloading it from activeperl, but it is not available either. I don't know what to do!
Thanks in advance for your help,
Claire

In reply to Re^2: Finding the size of a directory by Real Perl
in thread Finding the size of a directory by Real Perl

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