Re: Noob File::Find issue

[thomas895]

in reply to Noob File::Find issue

Also, not all modules export their subroutines. I have no idea if File::Find does(and I'm too lazy to check), so you might have to do one of the following:

#These statements are equivalent
use File::Find qw( find );
use File::Find 'find';

I personally find it good practice(by my own conventions) to do that, just to make it clearer to myself where a function comes from. Your choice, ultimately.

[GrandFather]

If I'm interested in knowing where stuff comes from I do exactly the opposite:

use File::Find qw();

...

File::Find::find(...);

By the time I'm a few dozen lines away from the top of the file I've probably completely forgotten where find() came from. A sometimes other benefit of being explicit is that if there is a 'find' in several different modules that are in use then it is clear which one is wanted.