Just wanted to second Kenny's good advice regarding File::Find. It is a
very good tool and will make life a lot easier for you.
Jeremiah
Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:06:35PM -0400: Kenny Gatdula mangled some bits into
this alignment:
> 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.
> >
> >--
> >
> >Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
> >Roughly, though not thoroughly, thought through.
>
