Hi. I need feedback on this... In order to run a Perl program, I must check for the availability of another program (i.e. it's in the PATH). So I've created a subroutine for this (which returns 0 for "not found" and 1 for "found"), and I'm not sure if this is the best option. Here's the code:
sub available {
my $program = shift;
for my $pathdir (split /:/, $ENV{PATH}) {
return 1 if -x "$pathdir/$program";
}
return 0;
}
I'd like to know if it's inefficient, and if there's a core module that already takes care of such tasks. Found nothing related on the FAQs.
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