On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 03:09:31PM -0700, Wagner, David --- Senior Programmer Analyst --- WGO wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Matt Herzog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 15:00 > > To: Begin Perl > > Subject: File::Find again > > > > Hello All. > > > > I can see why people hate this module but I can't seem to let go. > > I point this script at a deep dir structure that has java .properties > > files sprinkled throughout it. Right now when I have my regex > > "hard coded" > > in the file, (.properties$) the search works fine. I need to > > be able to use > > the variable $searchstring at the command line. Is this even > > possible? If > > not, is there a way to exclude directories from being returned?
This is all I needed. I swear I had " /($searchstring)/; " in there at some point before . . . so if I pass it -s "\.properties$" at the command line, it works as expetcted. Nice. ################################################################ use strict; use warnings; use File::Find; use Getopt::Std; use vars qw/ %opt /; my $args = 't:s:a:'; getopts( "$args", \%opt ); my $targetdir = $opt{t}; my $searchstring = $opt{s}; my $append = $opt{a}; find(\&mod, $targetdir); sub mod { return unless /($searchstring)/; print "$_\n" } ################################################################ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/