On 9/19/07 2:56 AM, "djgoku" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/18/07, Andrew Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:31:39PM -0500, djgoku wrote: >>> What is the best way to keep track that a certain file is the same one >>> that has been previously looked/opened at. >> >> I'd think that one of the File::* modules would be able to generate a >> list of unique files in a directory. Have you looked at (off the top >> of my head) File::Find or File::Next and their ilk? > > I just use the information from stat(). I am currently using the size, > mtime, ctime. > > Hopefully this answers both your question, and JohnR's. I have looked > around File::* but haven't found anything to suit my needs. > > Jonathan > _______________________________________________ > kc mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
If excel is updating some sort of meta data within the file, which changes the MD5 of it every time it is viewed. I can't think of any modules you could use externally to do what you want to do. Maybe you can dump that row/column data of the table and generate a MD5 sum off of that to see if any of the internal data points have actually changed. -- Scott Kahler Systems Engineer uclick, LLC (an Andrews McMeel Universal Company) [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.uclick.com www.gocomics.com _______________________________________________ kc mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc
