using wildcards to open files in multiple directories

[dbrazeau]

This is problay easy to do but I'm really new to perl and am having trouble opening files in several directories to make a list of them using wildcards. Here is what I have:

my @files = <../*/*.asm>;

So basicly I'm trying to search for all files endding with .asm that are in any subdirectory of the parent directory that I am currently in.

 

[travs69]

my @filenames = glob ("$directory/*.asm");

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[KevinADC]

You need to drill down through sub directories. A glob will not do that automatically. File::Find might be better if you have to find all the .asm files in all the sub directories or code your own recursive subroutine to do it.

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[travs69]

Oh.. I missed the several directory part. File::Find works really good for finding files in a tree. I used to roll my own but found that File::Find worked just as good.

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Travis - Those Who Say It Cannot Be Done Are Usually Interrupted by Someone Else Doing It; Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions;