Re: Editing multiple xml files in perl with help of Getopt::Long and Globbing

in reply to Editing multiple xml files in perl with help of Getopt::Long and Globbing

Unless you are doing something else with other options to the script which you aren't showing us, I don't see any reason for you to do the globbing in the script. Why not just use the shell's globbing instead? If you invoke the script with:

./script *.xml

and handle this in your code with:

while (my $file = shift @ARGV) {
    next unless -r $file;
    # Process the file here
}
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would that not achieve the end result?

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Re^2: Editing multiple xml files in perl with help of Getopt::Long and Globbing by Jim (Curate) on Nov 30, 2013 at 16:32 UTC
Shell globbing isn't universal or portable. So in many cases, it's appropriate to expand globs within the Perl script using File::Glob or other mechanism. For example, in the Microsoft Windows shell (Command Prompt), wildcards are not as powerful or as useful as BSD-style globs; in particular, they can't be used to expand directories (folder), which makes them generally useless for my purposes. I invariably need my Perl scripts to permit their users to glob multiple folder names.	[reply]
Re^2: Editing multiple xml files in perl with help of Getopt::Long and Globbing by chidori (Novice) on Nov 30, 2013 at 13:17 UTC
Sorry , didn't mention in my intial post. Yes, i have other options that will get the date and another option to print the xml content. Thats why i didn't do shell globbing.	[reply]

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