Re: Is empty directory?

2003-06-16 Thread Jair Santos
e Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. P.S. Although our initials are the same, I am not related to Jair :) -Original Message- From: John W. Krahn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

Re: Is empty directory?

2003-06-16 Thread Jair Santos
ActivePerl 5.8 - Original Message - From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 3:41 PM Subject: Re: Is empty directory? > Jair Santos wrote: > > > > From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL P

Re: Is empty directory?

2003-06-16 Thread Jair Santos
Is it a DOS or UNIX box ? Mine is DOS and it works. - Original Message - From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:57 PM Subject: Re: Is empty directory? > Jair Santos wrote: > > > > > Tha

Re: Is empty directory?

2003-06-16 Thread Jair Santos
> That is because "= =" is a syntax error, it should be "==" with no > whitespace between the two equals signs. Since the expression is in a > boolean context the "== 0" part can be omitted and it will do the same > thing. Thats ok, but it was NOT a sintax error. The script was running properly w

Re: Is empty directory?

2003-06-16 Thread Jair Santos
. Could you explain what exactly this part of the line does. grep ! /^\.{1,2}/ Is it a search over the readdir result set ? Jair - Original Message - From: "Charles K. Clarkson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Jair Santos'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: Is empty directory?

2003-06-16 Thread Jair Santos
Thanks John, it is clear enough. regards Jair - Original Message - From: "John W. Krahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:59 AM Subject: Re: Is empty directory? > Jair Santos wrote: > > > > Thank to

Re: Is empty directory?

2003-06-16 Thread Jair Santos
IsEmptyDir { my ( $directory) = @_ ; return undef unless -d $_[0]; opendir my $dh, $_[0] or die $!; my $count = () = readdir $dh; return $count - 2; } - Original Message - From: "Mark G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jair Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

trim function

2003-06-11 Thread Jair Santos
Hi all, say that $directory = "C:\\directory\\*.*" and I am trying to remove the *.* from the end using $directory = trim($directory); where trim is sub trim { my( $result) = @_; $result =~ s/^\s+(.*?)\s+$/$1/; $result =~ s/\s//g; return $result; } Can anybody point me out why

Re: Mail::Mailer

2003-06-09 Thread Jair Santos
Please, send the code to the list. I would like to know because have a similar problem. thanks Jair - Original Message - From: "Tony Esposito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: RE: Mail::Mailer > You all can ignore this thread..

Re: processing text in perl script

2003-06-06 Thread Jair Santos
You have to include the go_next; in your while loop. Jair - Original Message - From: "Pedro Antonio Reche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 3:40 PM Subject: processing text in perl script > Hi All, > > I would like to read and proces

Re: Is empty directory?

2003-06-06 Thread Jair Santos
Thanks all, it is simple and works. Jair - Original Message - From: "Mark G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jair Santos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:09 PM Subject: Re: Is empty directory

Is empty directory?

2003-06-06 Thread Jair Santos
Hi all, does anybody knows how to check if a diretory is empty? TIA Jair