rea...@newsguy.com (Harry Putnam) writes:
> What surprised me is the that when I ran them prefaced with the `time'
> utility, I see the sloppy mess I wrote is nearly twice as fast.
I may have found a reason.
in the find sub {}
part you did two returns
return unless -f;
return un
jimsgib...@gmail.com (Jim Gibson) writes:
> You have a logic error in your code somewhere. Your logic for counting
> the files with a name matching a certain pattern is too complicated to
> follow and point out where your error lies and how to fix it. The
> basic problem is that your logic depends
You have a logic error in your code somewhere. Your logic for counting the
files with a name matching a certain pattern is too complicated to follow and
point out where your error lies and how to fix it. The basic problem is that
your logic depends upon detecting when the directory name changes,
Working on script using File::Find to count the number of news posts
in a semi-extensive hierarchy. As some may know, news posts are
commonly stored in numeric named files, one file per posting.
The following script tries to plow thru a hierarchy returning the
directory name and file count for th
