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I think the problem is that what you have still reads everything into @subfolders. Here's the snippet I'm talking about.

open(FFINFO,"$folderfolder_file") or die "Can't open $folderfolder_fil +e: $!\n"; # This reads in every line from FFINFO my @subfolders = <FFINFO>; my %parents_of; my $parentid; # This loop also wants to read every line, # but the handle is already at EOF, # so it gets nothing. while ( my $line = <FFINFO> ) {

If you need @subfolders for some purpose outside the code we're talking about, you could still have it. Just declare my @subfolders; at the same scope as $parentid and %parents_of, without initializing it. Then, right inside the FFINFO read loop, push every $line in. It winds up looking like this:

open(FFINFO,"$folderfolder_file") or die "Can't open $folderfolder_fil +e: $!\n"; my @subfolders; my %parents_of; my $parentid; while ( my $line = <FFINFO> ) { push @subfolders, $line;

You also had a question about this:

return @parents ? [ map { map { "$_/$folderid" } @{ build_path( +$_ ) } } @parents ] : [ $folderid ];

What this means is, "if @parents is non-empty, return first expression (with nested maps), else return the second expression ($folderid alone in an array reference)." Your description leads me to believe that you have the precedence mixed up. What you describe is this:

( return @parents ) ? [ X ] : [ Y ];

What's happening is this:

return ( @parents ? [ X ] : [ Y ] );

You can see this kind of thing yourself using B::Deparse. I ran this command line:

perl -MO=Deparse,-p input-file.pl

With the -p, it puts parentheses in to clarify how expressions are interpreted. As a result, it showed me this (along with all the other code):

return((@parents ? [map({map({"$_/$folderid";} @{build_path($_);});} @ +parents)] : [$folderid]));

That's not pretty, but it does show that the return is "outside" the whole rest of the line.

I hope this helps. I feel I've written in some haste, so I wouldn't be surprised if I've been unclear. If I have left you with any other questions, feel free to ask.


In reply to Re^5: Building a UNIX path from Irritating data by kyle
in thread Building a UNIX path from Irritating data by roswell1329

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