Thanks, it worked or at least gave me an error and exited the batch file. The batch
files are difficult to work out if there are a lot (I have 12 or more files to check)
so I will probably do as you suggest (write a wrapper) once I have worked out how to
do it, and then I can return the error
I think my main problem is getting an eror out of perl which is recognised by a .bat
file. I have set a return code in the program from a subroutine but it is not getting
to the operating system.
__SNIP__
while ()
{
chomp;
$length = length($_);
if ($length != $lp) {
print OU
I am doing a simple record length check on a series of files via a dos batch file e.g.
check_length.bat:
check_length.pl file1 100
check_length.pl file2 200
check_length.pl file3 300
Is it possible to do something in perl (like a return code) so that the batch file
aborts if say file2 is i
All,
I am trying to write some portable code for listing files and directories on
Unix and Win and possibly Mac. I want to get specifically the modification
date of files into a format that can load into mySQL in -mm-dd format.
(This will help me greatly with housekeeping.)
I have looked
No, I am using Win NT.
Regards,
Mark
Surrey,UK
> Does your system have the 'cmp' program on it? IIRC this is a standard or
> fairly standard Unix utility which does exactly what you want and you could
> just call it from Perl...
>Regards
>
>Mark Bedish
>Surrey,UK
>
>
>In a message dated Tue
Is there a better way to compare large files than this snippet, which runs out of
memory if files > 30mb.
It is also slow, about the same speed as comparing in a text editor!
Thank you.
__SNIP__
@file1 = ();
@file2 = ();
$are_equal = compare_arrays(\@file1, \@file2);
if ($are_equal) {
pr
