Re: Parsing directory for particular filenames

Cass...@epamail.epa.gov wrote:
> > Margaret, you wrote [in part]:> > opendir(WD,"C:/test/GraphList") || die "Cannot opendir . (Failed to open> directory): $!";> > foreach (sort readdir(WD))> >  {> >> > print qq|<a href="C:/test/GraphList/$_">$_</a><br>\n| unless /^\.\.?$/;> >   print qq!$filename\n!;> >  }> > closedir(WD) || die "Cannot closedir . (Failed to close directory): $!";> > Good so far, although I personally prefer 'or' instead of || in code> such as the above.  But you can move the test for the directories up> into the foreach, in the same way that you can make the test that you> actually asked about:

In the case above it doesn't make a difference, but 'or' and '||'
actually have different precedences.  Consider the two code snippets:

my $objref = Obj->new() or warn "unable to create object";

and

my $objref = Obj->new() || warn "unable to create object";


perldoc perlop for details.


Ian

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