(Updated with improvements to example) No module works at all in an absolute sense. That is to say, provided you understand that to work means to meet requirements and since there are an infinite number of requirements, confining your thinking to a finite solution set for all time makes sure that your methods will fail most of the time, core module or not. The same is true of File::Find, also a core module - not all find requirements originating from actual business will match it as nicely as a tailor-made solution.

In a File::Find solution, where requirements are complex, the need to intersperse interface with functionality makes the solution more complicated than just inserting the requirement-meeting code in a recursive subroutine, although File::Find might well win for relatively trivial requirements.

-M

Free your mind

In reply to Re^3: File::Temp randomness when forking by Moron
in thread File::Temp randomness when forking by ryantate

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