Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] How art thou glob?

[Richard Gordon <maccgi@bellsouth.net>]

At 19:54 -0400 07/21/1999, Randy M. Zeitman wrote:
>question...what's the right format to glob while specifying a filepath?
>(sample below...don't work) I have no problem open the file using the open
>command so I know my directory's ok...is there a perl 'current working
>directory' I can set?...don't see it in the Learning Perl book.

chdir is used to change directories, but...

I really don't quite follow what you are trying to do here. First, a 
subroutine is usually called with

&get_files;

not

get_files();

Second, if you are trying to build a list of filenames from your perl 
code folder that end in .cde, you will be much happier using 
something like

opendir (INDIR, $indir);
@dir = grep {/.+cde$/} readdir (INDIR);
closedir (INDIR);

Where $indir has already been set by you to "BeCause:Desktop 
Folder:perl code:" and you then proceed to do something with each 
filename stored in the @dir array you just created using an iterative 
loop of some kind. Also, I don't know what your .cde extension is 
supposed to be- on a Mac, it doesn't really matter, but most people 
use .pl for Perl scripts in any case.

Maybe if you explained what you are doing, it would be a little 
easier to make meaningful suggestions?


Richard Gordon
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