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Testing for a dir on Windows XP
well my original script had the line :- foreach my $file (@files) { next if -d $file; etc, etc; } this did not seem to work ,however taking everyone's advice I changed the line to; -d $file && next; This seems to work!!!! -
Testing for a dir on Windows XP
Hi, I'm using Activestae perl on a WinXP box. Can anyone tell me the best way to test if a file is a directory since -d does not seem to work. Thanks :-) -
troubles with Win32::OLE
Hi peeps, I'm using Win32::OLE to open a load of excel files - I nees to read two cells, one with a date and the other with a time. My program seems to have trouble closing each instance of excel. I use $obj = Win32::OLE->new(Excel.Application, 'Quit'); and at the end I also use; $obj->close... -
regex on command line
$bar =~ s/^(\w+)\.\w$/$1/ should do it. Your expression is expecting to sub 2 or 3 dots for nothing
