another directory question

[jrsmith]

i have another problem.. i am using -d to test whether it is a directory or not but it is telling me that all my directories are not directories. the only directories it will recognize as directories are NOT directories, and these are the . and .. used to navigate to previous dirs in win32. this is what i get when i run the script:

. is a directory.
.. is a directory.
Cannot determine filetype of digsol.

here is the filetest section of my script:

if (-f $i) {
   print OUTPUT "$i is a file.\n";
} elsif (-d $i) {
   print OUTPUT "$i is a directory.\n";
} else {
   print OUTPUT "Cannot determine what $i is.\n";
}

are there any known problems with -d and win32? i have looked around here and other sites and haven't seen any similar problems, maybe i'm just doing something wrong? TIA for any insight you can provide
JR

[jrsmith]

nevermind i found out what is wrong... -d was testing just the directory name specified by $i when i should have included the path in that like e:/$i or $path$i. thanx anyway :)

[BBQ]

Depeding on how long you intend to spend doing stuff in each directory, it might be a good idea to do a chdir into that directory. This would avoid running into problems like the one you just had.

This is one of those philosofical issues, like what's best:
• relative links
• absolute urls
Each person has a particular way of doing things, but I just tend to think its a matter of what makes things clearer. In your case, it could be:

if (-f "$path/$leaf") {
}

# or simply 

chdir($path) || warn();
if (-d $leaf) {
}

cheers!