man IO::Dir () - supply object methods for directory handles
NAME
IO::Dir - supply object methods for directory handles
SYNOPSIS
use IO::Dir;
$d = IO::Dir->new(".");
if (defined $d) {
while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something($_); }
$d->rewind;
while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something_else($_); }
undef $d;
}
tie %dir, 'IO::Dir', ".";
foreach (keys %dir) {
print $_, " " , $dir{$_}->size,"\n";
}
DESCRIPTION
The CWIO::Dir package provides two interfaces to perl's directory reading routines.
The first interface is an object approach. CWIO::Dir provides an object constructor and methods, which are just wrappers around perl's built in directory reading routines.
- new ( [ DIRNAME ] )
- CWnew is the constuctor for CWIO::Dir objects. It accepts one optional argument which, if given, CWnew will pass to CWopen
The following methods are wrappers for the directory related functions built into perl (the trailing `dir' has been removed from the names). See perlfunc for details of these functions.
- open ( DIRNAME )
- read ()
- seek ( POS )
- tell ()
- rewind ()
- close ()
CWIO::Dir also provides an interface to reading directories via a tied hash. The tied hash extends the interface beyond just the directory reading routines by the use of CWlstat, from the CWFile::stat package, CWunlink, CWrmdir and CWutime.
The keys of the hash will be the names of the entries in the directory. Reading a value from the hash will be the result of calling CWFile::stat::lstat. Deleting an element from the hash will delete the corresponding file or subdirectory, provided that CWDIR_UNLINK is included in the CWOPTIONS.
Assigning to an entry in the hash will cause the time stamps of the file to be modified. If the file does not exist then it will be created. Assigning a single integer to a hash element will cause both the access and modification times to be changed to that value. Alternatively a reference to an array of two values can be passed. The first array element will be used to set the access time and the second element will be used to set the modification time.
SEE ALSO
File::stat
AUTHOR
Graham Barr. Currently maintained by the Perl Porters. Please report all bugs to <perl5-porters@perl.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1997-2003 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.