Michael Weber wrote: > > Been to CPAN enough that I'm seeing crosseyed. > > What I want to do is to write a program that will return a list of > files named *.edi which are found in <some-directory-base>/*/files_in > directory and then process each file one at a time. > > Now for the kicker. It needs to run now on a Win32 platform, and > in a few months on a Linux platform with as few changes as possible. > > In a linux shell script, it would look something like this: > > for file in $base_dir/*/files_in/*.edi > do > <process $file> > done > > Am I looking for a module to return file names when it is a coding issue?
I don't know if this will work on Windows but on Linux you can use glob to do this. my @files = glob "$base_dir/*/files_in/*.edi"; John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
