Re: Skipping files in a directory

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foreach my $dir (@DIRS) {
  warn "Directory $dir not found!\n" and next
    unless -d $dir;
  #
  #  work with existing directory here
  #
}
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Re^2: Skipping files in a directory by svenXY (Deacon) on Dec 11, 2008 at 10:55 UTC
++ccn as it is obviously much better to check for the existence of a directory before trying to open it and warn on failure	[reply]
Re^3: Skipping files in a directory by moritz (Cardinal) on Dec 11, 2008 at 11:58 UTC
as it is obviously much better to check for the existence of a directory before trying to open it and warn on failure That might be OK here, but in the general case it is not, because of race conditions. If you check for the existence of a directory, and then open it, it might be deleted by another process between these two operations. Thus you have to do the error checking anyway, and don't gain anything by another call to stat (which most file test ops do). That's why the general philosophy with file access and IO is "try and see if it worked", not "first test if it might work, and then try".	[reply]
Re^3: Skipping files in a directory by anand_perl (Novice) on Dec 11, 2008 at 11:53 UTC
Thanks a lot svenXY and ccn	[reply]


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