Re: perl glob

Normally this globbing would be handled by the shell, so your two commands would be

perl wrapper.pl *.ws
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and

perl wrapper.pl test_*.ws
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Leaving your script to work its way through @ARGV and process files.

To make it even simpler, you could just replace wrapper.pl with converter.pl, unless the wrapper script is doing something that you haven't shown here.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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Re^2: perl glob by Anonymous Monk on Nov 07, 2013 at 14:28 UTC
Sorry for my poor english... The converter.pl is an other long programm which I have wrote for converting scripts in one programming language to the scripts in an other. But with converter.pl I can only convert one file in one go. E.g.: `perl converter.pl abc.ws` It will create a new script names abc.is. So I wrote this simple wrapper, to allow me converting several ws files in one go. E.g.: `perl wrapper.pl .ws` For instance, it converts abc.ws, efg.ws and hij.ws in one go, which I can't achieve with: `perl converter.pl .ws`. P.S. `perl converter.pl *.ws` also didn't work, probably because I also allowed users to define the output filename by themselves, e.g.: `perl converter.pl abc.ws efg.is` And here is the relevant codes in converter.pl: `my $file_name = ""; if (scalar(@ARGV) == 2){ $file_name .= $ARGV[1]; } else { $ARGV[0] =~ s/(.+)\.\S+/$1/; $file_name .= $ARGV[0]; $file_name .= ".is"; }` [download] I checked here whether the user defined a name for the "is" file, if not the "is" file will take the same name with the "ws" file. Many thanks!	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^2: perl glob
by Anonymous Monk on Nov 07, 2013 at 14:28 UTC

Sorry for my poor english...

The converter.pl is an other long programm which I have wrote for converting scripts in one programming language to the scripts in an other. But with converter.pl I can only convert one file in one go. E.g.:

perl converter.pl abc.ws

It will create a new script names abc.is. So I wrote this simple wrapper, to allow me converting several ws files in one go. E.g.:

perl wrapper.pl .ws

For instance, it converts abc.ws, efg.ws and hij.ws in one go, which I can't achieve with:

perl converter.pl .ws

P.S.

perl converter.pl *.ws

also didn't work, probably because I also allowed users to define the output filename by themselves, e.g.:

perl converter.pl abc.ws efg.is

And here is the relevant codes in converter.pl:

my $file_name = "";
if (scalar(@ARGV) == 2){
    $file_name .= $ARGV[1];
} else {
    $ARGV[0] =~ s/(.+)\.\S+/$1/;
    $file_name .= $ARGV[0];
    $file_name .= ".is";
}
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I checked here whether the user defined a name for the "is" file, if not the "is" file will take the same name with the "ws" file.

Many thanks!

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