Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module P602. This topic is presented on public courses Perl for Larger Projects, Extra Day

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Extra Days - training course - Subjects not covered on regular public courses! Extra Days - Subjects not covered on regular public courses! We offer a wide range of public courses which well cover the training needs of the majority ... http://www.wellho.net/course/axfull.html  [course]

Perl - functions for directory handling Perl has many built in functions for file and directory handling and you should use them in preference to shelling out in your scripts because: • ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1225_Per ... dling.html  [short article]

File Locking div class= introsubheads WHY DO WE NEED FILE LOCKING BR /div If several processes wish to READ the same data file at the same time, and no process ... http://www.wellho.net/solutions/general- ... cking.html  [longer article]

Processing all files in a directory - Perl From this week's Perl course: opendir(DH, "."); while ($igot = readdir(DH)) {   next if ($igot =~ /^\.{1,2}$/);   print "igot $igot\n"; ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1832_Pro ... -Perl.html  [short article]

Answering ALL the delegate's Perl questions During courses, questions arise. "I'll get back to that" could make people feel that I'm brushing something off ... except that I explain, early on, ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/975_Answ ... tions.html  [short article]

There is more that one way - Perl "There are six ways of doing anything in Perl." So say I on Perl courses and just occasionally I come up with an example that proves it. This one doesn't ... http://www.wellho.net/mouth/1709_The ... -Perl.html  [short article]

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File locking, database file handling, directory manipulation and more. This module also covers Perl's format and write commands used for traditional text formatting applications, but now of specialist interest.

This topic is presented on public courses Perl for Larger Projects, Extra Day

bchop	Random access to a file - using a binary chop
flockdemo	Co-operative file locing with flock
ftype	Establishing the type of a file system object
huge	finding lost disc space - hunting for huge files
huge2	A progress line - hunting for huge files
loglook	reading a specific number of bytes
ndd	Accessing NDBM files
nf	Use of $! to find out why an action failed
nopen	$! in a string and a numeric context
pfc	Copying a file block by block
pls	Four ways of finding the contents of a directory
recur	recursively scanning directories
webfiles	Using typeglobs to handle an effective array of files
wr_loop	Using file locking constants