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Re^2: Using grep and glob to find directories containing file

by Anonymous Monk
on Feb 03, 2013 at 15:09 UTC ( [id://1016828]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Using grep and glob to find directories containing file
in thread Using grep and glob to find directories containing file

I thought grep will *only* return the elements of the array for which the first expression is true. Since the first expression glob("$_/f*") is only true for 'dir1', it should only return that element of the directory list (even though glob returns 3 files in that directory). The glob finds no elements in the other 2 directories, so it should be undefined which would evaluate as false.

I don't understand why the elements of glob("$_/f*") returned for the first directory entry seemingly spill over to subsequent directories in the (implicit) grep iteration.
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Re^3: Using grep and glob to find directories containing file
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Feb 03, 2013 at 15:35 UTC
    Since the first expression glob("$_/f*") is only true for 'dir1', it should only return that element of the directory list (even though glob returns 3 files in that directory).

    You are missing the fact that grep puts the glob in a scalar context, and that makes it act as an iterator:

    In scalar context, glob iterates through such filename expansions, returning undef when the list is exhausted.

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