Vamsi_Doddapaneni wrote on Montag, 9. Mai 2005 12:16
> Here is the code part:
> foreach $name(`ls $opt_i/*.xml`){
> chomp;
> push @f, $name;
> print "pushing elements=$name\n";
> }
> [EMAIL PROTECTED];
> Now in the directory $opt_i if there are some 10 , 20 or even 100 its
> working well. But now I have some 305 odd xmls and the code is
EXITING
> WITH
> sh: /usr/bin/ls: 0403-027 The parameter list is too long.
It's strange that your ls fails to handle 300+ files - is $opt_i being
expanded correctly? And I don't ever recall seeing an ls display an
error code upon failure.
In any case, I would suggest using the Perl built-in to read the
directory listing, instead of using the system ls command.
Here's sample, albeit untested code:
my $sample_dir = $opt_i;
chdir $sample_dir || die "\nFatal error : Cannot cd to $sample_dir\n";
opendir SAMPLEDIR, $sample_dir || die "\nFatal error : Cannot read
directory $sample_dir.\n";
my @ELEMENTS = grep /\.xml$/, readdir SAMPLEDIR;
close SAMPLEDIR;
The list @ELEMENTS will contain all *.xml files in $opt_i, if any.
BTW, this is slightly OT for the DBI-users list.
Cheers,
Srikanth Madani
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