$Bill Luebkert writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > All of which discussion illustrates, I think, why it is so often quicker
> > and cleaner to use the ready made solution to the problem that comes
> > with Perl, i.e. in this case, File::Find.
>
> I use it all the time, but it's not necessarily quicker or cleaner - it is
> probably easier though.
Possibly but I find it hard to imagine rolling your own not being both
less clean, and more code, than using File::Find.
> But once you have your own recursive tree-walker
> though, you may want to continue using it because you know all the nuances
> of it.
But not necessarily all the nuances of the problem, which have been
solved and debugged in File::Find. Not to mention portability
issues. Also, if written as Olivier suggested, with "insert your code
here" sections, the only way you can reuse the code is by cut&paste,
which is a bad idea.
> The File::Find callback interface may confuse some also.
This is true. It is also why Richard Clamp wrote File::Find::Rule. It is a
fairly recent addition to CPAN, but if anyone from Activestate is
listening, perhaps it can be added to the PPM archive. I recommend it.
> It doesn't
> hurt to know how to do these sorts of tasks.
True, and good way to find out would be to read File::Find :-)
HTH
--
Brian Raven
It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there.
And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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