File::Find::Rule::Procedural (3pm)

  use File::Find::Rule;

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

In addition to the regular object-oriented interface, File::Find::Rule provides two subroutines for you to use. \*(C`find\*(C' and \*(C`rule\*(C' can be used to invoke any methods available to the \s-1OO\s0 version. \*(C`rule\*(C' is a synonym for \*(C`find\*(C'

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

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

\*(C`find\*(C' and \*(C`rule\*(C' both return a File::Find::Rule instance, unless one of the arguments is \*(C`in\*(C', 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 \*(C`in\*(C' 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 \*(C`!\*(C' like so:

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

Richard Clamp <[email protected]>

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.

File::Find::Rule