June 2008
Beginner
352 pages
11h 16m
English
You probably won’t need recursive directory access for the
first few dozen hours of your Perl programming career. So rather than
distract you with the possibility of replacing all those ugly
find scripts with Perl right now, we’ll simply
entice you by saying that Perl comes with a nice library called File::Find, which you can use for nifty recursive directory
processing. We’re also saying this to keep you from writing your own
routines—which everyone seems to want to do after those first few dozen
hours of programming—and then getting puzzled about things like “local
directory handles” and “how do I change my directory back?”