On Feb 11, 2008 4:17 PM, Michael Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought about using lstat to get the size of a file for file > comparisons. I see that lstat always returns a list of thirteen values. > The references I find appear to require assignment of those 13 values > to variables, even though I only want to use one. > > Do I really have to put > > ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size, > $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) > = lstat($filename); > > Just to get the $size variable populated with the file size? > > My ultimate goal is to check the size of huge files copied to a folder. > Once I get the $size to come back the same three times in a row, > indicating the file is all there, then I can move on with playing with > the file. snip
The lstat function returns a list, so you can use the splice operator on it: my $size = (lstat $filename)[7]; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
