On Feb 11, 2008 4:39 PM, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chas. Owens wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2008 4:17 PM, Michael Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I thought about using lstat to get the size of a file for file > >> comparisons. I see that lstat always returns a list of thirteen values. > >> The references I find appear to require assignment of those 13 values > >> to variables, even though I only want to use one. > >> > >> Do I really have to put > >> > >> ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid,$rdev,$size, > >> $atime,$mtime,$ctime,$blksize,$blocks) > >> = lstat($filename); > >> > >> Just to get the $size variable populated with the file size? > >> > >> My ultimate goal is to check the size of huge files copied to a folder. > >> Once I get the $size to come back the same three times in a row, > >> indicating the file is all there, then I can move on with playing with > >> the file. > > snip > > > > The lstat function returns a list, so you can use the splice operator on it: > > The splice operator only works on arrays, not lists. > > > my $size = (lstat $filename)[7]; > > That is an axample of a list *slice*. snip
Yeah, I fat-fingered that. On a related note, it is an example, not an axample. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
