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Athanasius
<p>Hello [harangzsolt33],</p>
<p>One thing I notice is that your <c>sub RSPACE</c> is essentially duplicating part of the functionality already present in Perl’s [doc://printf] and [doc://sprintf] builtin functions. In fact, your functions <c>RSPACE</c> and <c>PRINT</c> can be removed altogether, and the two places where <c>PRINT</c> is called can be written as follows:</p>
<code>
# (1) in sub SearchFile:
PRINT("FOUND: $FULLNAME"); # original
printf " %-8dFOUND: %s\n", $TOTAL, $FULLNAME; # replacement
# (2) in sub CheckDIR:
if ($VERBOSE) { PRINT("SEARCHING: ", FormatPath($PATH)); } # original
printf " %-8dSEARCHING: %s\n", $TOTAL, FormatPath($PATH) if $VERBOSE; # replacement
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<p>Note the use of a [doc://perlsyn#Statement-Modifiers|statement mofifier] in the second case. In general, statement modifiers should be preferred over [doc://perlsyn#Compound-Statements| compound statements] whenever a single statement is involved, as this simplifies the code.</p>
<p>Some of your coding conventions could also be improved (IMHO):</p>
<ul>
<li>The use of all-uppercase variable names should be reserved for constants.</li>
<li>Magic numbers (even ASCII values) should be replaced by constants:
<c>
use Const::Fast;
const my $ASTERISK => 42;
const my $DOT => 46;
const my $QUESTION => 63;
# etc.
</c>
</li>
<li>In a script intended to be called directly from the command line, and not used as a module, the distinction between “public” and “private” functions is pointless. (Conversely, if the script is intened to be called as a module, it should begin with an appropriate <c>package</c> declaration.)</li>
</ul>
<p>I haven’t studied your code in detail. Overall, it looks good: well thought-out and implemented.</p>
<p><small>Regarding posting:<br />
(1) It would be better to include your code in the question itself (inside <c><readmore></c> tags!) than to provide a web address, as the latter is likely to become invalid and so render this thread incomprehensible to future readers.<br />
(2) You say you have tested the program. Adding your test code (again, in <c><readmore></c> tags, of course) would aid the monks in evaluating your code.
</small></p>
<p>Hope that helps,</p>
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