Re: Recursive file processing from a path and printing output in a file

in reply to Recursive file processing from a path and printing output in a file

Examine File::Find::Rule and more specifically the start and match methods.

The logic of your program can then be simplified as follows:

use Modern::Perl;
use File::Find::Rule;

my $start_dir = 'c:/Test';

my $rule = File::Find::Rule->file->start($start_dir);
while ( defined( my $file = $rule->match ) ) {
    # process $file ...
}
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Why do you need to replace the spaces in the files you found to comma's? I cannot see any good reason for that.

To transform your files into XML format, several XML modules exist, such as XML::Writer. Writing XML is not simple, there are many rules to follow and these modules take care of it.

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