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Re: How do I test whether a file has some contents or not?

by ybiC (Prior)
on Oct 15, 2000 at 17:13 UTC ( [id://36810]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


⭐ in reply to How do I test whether a file has some contents or not?

Filetest operators can be found at perlfunc:_X.   Just a day or so ago swiftone showed me the "_" shortcut for performing multiple tests on one file.   Yet another way to look at it. 
if (-s $file && -T _) {
    # do stuff with text file > 0bytes
    }
if (-s $file && -B _) {
    # do stuff with binary file > 0bytes
    }

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