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Friday July 26, 2002
08:17 AM

and breathe out

[ #6660 ]

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After almost a week of dicking with the docs to try and make them as clear as possible it's released.

Play with, break, enjoy.


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  • Thanks for doin' this, Richard. It's awfully handy to be able to have:
    my $rules = File::Find::Rule->new->file->name( '*.html' );
    $rules->or( $rules->new->directory->name('CVS')->prune->discard, $rules->new );
    my @html = $rules->in( './' );
    to find all the HTML files in my project.
    --

    --
    xoa

    • Thanks, though I don't think that does quite what you mean.

      What you've constructed is:

      file && name( '*.html' ) && ( ( directory && name( 'CVS' ) && prune && discard ) || anything )

      So it won't be pruning any CVS directories, as file && directory won't fire. The matching path is file && name( '*.html' ) && anything. This does give me an idea though, 0.02 will probably let you query which rules fired for a particular file, if there's a wa

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