Hi Doug,
I really couldn't tell you if this is a known problem, but, this
seems to be a job for File::Find.
Hope this helps,
Kenny
use File::Find;
use File::Basename;
my @directories_to_search = '/Users/kennyg';
find(\&wanted, @directories_to_search);
sub wanted {
my $file = $_;
my $dir = $File::Find::dir;
next unless $file =~ /\.pl/;
my $dirname = basename($dir);
my $filename = fileparse($file,'.pl');
next unless $filename eq $dirname;
print "Found $file in $dir\n";
}
On May 19, 2007, at 9:15 PM, Doug McNutt wrote:
The Camel book is a bit scary describing performance of filename
globbing with the <*.pl> or the glob("*.pl") syntax with or without
"use Cwd" in the preamble. Portability is declared questionable.
I find that the only thing that works is <*> within a loop where
each file is tested by hand.
Consider this bit of doggerel. I'm looking for special cases of a
*.pl file that appears where * means the short name of the
enclosing directory. Note especially the "last" command in the
second while loop. It works not! What happens is that the second
pass through the while() loop begins in the previous directory at
the point where it was cut short after finding the file I want. If
I comment out the last statement, so that all of the files in the
directory are processed, everything works.
my ($trial, $ddd, $lookfor, $error, $nextdir);
@thefolders = ();
@directories = ();
while ($trial = <*>)
{
if (-d $trial)
{
push @thefolders, $trial;
# print REPORT "$trial\n";
}
}
for $ddd (@thefolders)
{
$lookfor = "$ddd.pl";
$nextdir = "$mybase/$ddd"; # $mybase, global, is full path to
initial directory.
$error = chdir "$nextdir";
while (<*>)
{
if ($_ eq $lookfor)
{
push @directories, $ddd;
# print REPORT "Added directory $ddd, $lookfor in $ddd\n";
# last; # Fails. while() continues where it left off in
the previous pass
}
}
}
If I try finding <*.pl>, <$lookfor>, or glob("$lookfor") I get a
real mess with hits from directories that bear no resemblance to
the most recent chdir which returned without error.
Making the second while loop operate within the while looking for
directories is even worse.
I'll probably get around to looking more deeply but there's little
point if someone here knows that it's all a known problem on MacOS
neXt. (10.3.9 here because I need to talk to my SE/30 file
server.) Oh It's perl 5.8.1-RC3.
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