About internal working of File::Find

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Looking over the perldoc File::Find output (perl 5.8.4) I see at finddepth it says: [...] in part finddepth() works just like find() except that is invokes the wanted function for a directory after invoking it for the direc- tory's contents. It does a postorder traversal

Re: About internal working of File::Find

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Gibson
On 10/28/09 Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:55 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com scribbled: Looking over the perldoc File::Find output (perl 5.8.4) I see at finddepth it says: [...] in part finddepth() works just like find() except that is invokes the wanted function for a

Re: About internal working of File::Find

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Gibson jimsgib...@gmail.com writes: If you want to process files in a certain order, then save the files in an array. When find is finished, sort that array and process the files in any order. For example, if you want to process files in chronological order, in the wanted routine save the

Re: About internal working of File::Find

2009-10-28 Thread Jim Gibson
On 10/28/09 Wed Oct 28, 2009 3:18 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com scribbled: Jim Gibson jimsgib...@gmail.com writes: If you want to process files in a certain order, then save the files in an array. When find is finished, sort that array and process the files in any order. For

Re: About internal working of File::Find

2009-10-28 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Gibson jimsgib...@gmail.com writes: [...] See 'perldoc perllol' for more details on constructing and accessing nested data structures in Perl. Will do, and as always you've given a useful and brief run through, thanks. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For