"Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So you can use:
>
> if (-f $file) {
> :
> # process file
> }
> elsif (-d $file) {
> :
> # process directory
> }
Well, yes of course I can run each filename thru all those tests, but
that seems kind of like a lot of huffing and puffing. I wondered if
there isn't something that just spits it out.
perl `stat' does do that very thing in element[2] ($mode) but extracting
`type' from that number looks hideously complicated.
Maybe running all possible tests is quicker and easier after all.
It would really come down to just these:
-f -d -l -b -c -p -S
But all that info is available in @elems = (stat "fname");
Unix `stat' actually spits it out in plain english, what type it is.
(at least gnu `stat' does)
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