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File-Find-Object-Rule-0.0313
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/ File::Find::Object::Rule::Procedural

NAME

File::Find::Object::Rule::Procedural - File::Find::Object::Rule's procedural interface

VERSION

version 0.0313

SYNOPSIS

  use File::Find::Object::Rule;

  # find all .pm files, procedurally
  my @files = find(file => name => '*.pm', in => \@INC);

DESCRIPTION

In addition to the regular object-oriented interface, File::Find::Object::Rule provides two subroutines for you to use.

find( @clauses )
rule( @clauses )

find and rule can be used to invoke any methods available to the OO version. rule is a synonym for find

Passing more than one value to a clause is done with an anonymous array:

 my $finder = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ] );

find and rule both return a File::Find::Object::Rule instance, unless one of the arguments is in, in which case it returns a list of things that match the rule.

 my @files = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ], in => $ENV{HOME} );

Please note that in will be the last clause evaluated, and so this code will search for mp3s regardless of size.

 my @files = find( name => '*.mp3', in => $ENV{HOME}, size => '<2k' );
                                                    ^
                                                    |
               Clause processing stopped here ------/

It is also possible to invert a single rule by prefixing it with ! like so:

 # large files that aren't videos
 my @files = find( file    =>
                   '!name' => [ '*.avi', '*.mov' ],
                   size    => '>20M',
                   in      => $ENV{HOME} );

AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2003 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

File::Find::Object::Rule

SUPPORT

Websites

The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

Bugs / Feature Requests

Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to bug-file-find-object-rule at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=File-Find-Object-Rule. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.

Source Code

The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)

https://github.com/shlomif/http://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-file-find-object-rule

  git clone git://github.com/shlomif/http://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-file-find-object-rule.git

AUTHORS

  • Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

  • Andy Lester andy@petdance.com.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/shlomif/http://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-file-find-object-rule/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Richard Clamp.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.