On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Andy Lester <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andy@petdance.com">andy@petdance.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Nov 7, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Jay Hannah wrote:<br>
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On Nov 6, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Mike Hostetler wrote:<br>
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Very basic Perl functionality, yet the original author didn't understand some basic concepts of Perl. Like how subroutines work, and the fact that not all variables need to be global.<br>
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File::Find is one of the oldest modules, and shows its heritage. You may not like the interface, but it's too late to change it now.<br>
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If you'd like a file finder with a more modern interface, may I suggest File::Next?<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
</div></blockquote><div><br>I'm sorry -- I didn't mean File::Find was bad-- I was referring to the script I have to refactor!!<br><br>I've used File::Find before, actually, but I just need to get all the files so it was easy. I didn't really have to write a function that did any filtering on them.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Mike Hostetler<br><a href="http://mike.hostetlerhome.com/">http://mike.hostetlerhome.com/</a><br><br><br>