Re: Beginners guide to File::Find

[rinceWind]

Excellent, spurperl, a good introduction to a very useful module. There's a couple of points I feel should be included though.

File::Find is cross-platform. It's one of the really handy ways for iterating directory trees on Windows - something Microsoft don't encourage you to do, with their 'hidden files' (File::Find X-rays through Windows hidden files mechanism nicely :-).

There's also a gotcha about the direction and number of the slashes. The value of $_ and $File::Find::name is not what you would expect in Windows.

[spurperl]

Thanks for the feedback rinceWind

I will include a notice about the cross-platformness of Find.

Also, the slashes thing - I assume it mostly applies to Windows ? If so, I've seen a nice explanation about these things in another tutorial - Paths in Perl, perhaps I can include a pointer to it