Hi Chuck- On 6/18/05, Charles Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Perl app that catalogs photo files. IS there a quicker way of > finding "the newest" file date in a directory other than doing a stat on > each file in it?? How?? > > TIA > Chuck >
I know it sounds a little weird, but what I do is manipulate large groups of individual files via ZIP archives- In my case, I have hundreds of PDF files generated daily; I zip each directory into a single zip (via a scheduled task), and glob the directory list (which tends to be fast because there's just one zip file in each directory). After "targeting" the zip file, (which has thousands of individual PDF files) I use use Archive::Zip to extract the file and dump the bytestream to the browser- you might obviously choose a different method, but I'm just throwing it out there as an idea. Obviously, theres a Zip method for getting the file date/time ( lastModFileDateTime()). HTH KC _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
