Re: I need help

[Terrence Brannon]

Charlie somerville wrote:

Please help me debug this perl script,

I reccommend:

[1] use File::Find

[2] visit www.perlmonks.org

[3] ask on #perlhelp on IRC on efnet

good luck


what it does is it searches a
directory for files with numbers in them and that have a desired extension,
anyway here is the script:
sub listnumfiles {
################################
# listnumfiles is (C) Copyright Charlie Somerville, and no-one else BUT
Charlie Somerville
#
# Use of listnumfiles is described in the GPL Public licence. (check
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_license.html for details)
################################
my $dir,$ext,@dirlist,@retdirlist,$currfile;
$dir=$_[0];
$ext=$_[1];
if(! -d $dir) {
die "Error 2!\nPlease check the manual for an error description.\n";
}
opendir(DIR,$dir) or die "Error 1!\nPlease check the manual for an error
description.\n";
@dirlist=<DIR>;
$num=0;
foreach (@dirlist) {
if(-d $currfile) {
die "Error 3!\nPlease check the manual for an error description.\n";
}
if($currfile=~m/(\w*\d+\w*\.$ext)/) {
push @retdirlist,$currfile;
}
$num++;
}
@[EMAIL PROTECTED];
}
listnumfiles("C:/projects/test_dir/","txt");
print @listnumfile::FILELIST;