On Monday, February 4, 2002, at 07:26 PM, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Feb 4, david wright said:
>
>> i am sending @array a directory (i.e. example /usr/dw5) which
>> contains a
>> lot of files and folders (directories).
>
> Be warned that readdir() returns NAMES, not PATHS.
>
> opendir DIR, "/some/dir";
> @files = readdir DIR;
> closedir DIR;
>
> @files will contain (".", "..", "file1", "blah", ...). Notice how those
> names do NOT have "/some/dir/" at the beginning?
>
> for (@files) {
> print "$_ is ok\n" if -d "/some/dir/$_";
> }
>
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> Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in
> 2002 **
> <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of
> course.
>
>
Damn it, now it makes sense, exactly,... it's just reading a "string" it
doesn't know what it's representing, that's why i have to chdir.
(Guess that answers my question of my i would have to chdir if i can
readdir ;-) ) excellent!
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