Section A.14. Answer to Chapter 15 Exercise


A.14. Answer to Chapter 15 Exercise

  1. Here's one way to do it.

         #!/usr/bin/perl     use Module::CoreList;     my %modules = %{ $Module::CoreList::version{5.006} };     print join "\n", keys %modules; 

    This answer uses a hash reference (which you'll have to read about in Alpaca, but we gave you the part to get around that. You don't have to know how it all works as long as you know it does work. You can get the job done and learn the details later.)

  2. There are a couple ways to approach this problem. For our solution, we used the Cwd (current working directory) module to find out where we were in the filesystem. We used a glob to get the list of all the files in the current directory; the names don't have the directory information, so we have to add that. You could have used opendir too, but glob is less typing. Our glob pattern includes .* to get the Unix hidden files, which don't match the * pattern.

    Once we have all the filenames, we go through them with foreach. For every name, we call File::Spec->catfile( ) just like what that module shows in its documentation. We save the result in $path, then print that to standard output:

         #!/usr/bin/perl           use Cwd;        # Current Working Directory     use File::Spec;           my $cwd = getcwd;     my @files = glob ".* *";           foreach my $file ( @files )     {     my $path = File::Spec->catfile( $cwd, $file );     print "$path\n";     } 

  3. This answer is much easier than the previous one, even though you had to write the last program to use this one. The work happens in the while loop. For every line of input, we call the basename function from File::Basename. We cribbed directly from the File::Basename documentation. We pass the line of input directly to basename and save the result in $name. Since we didn't chomp the line, $name still has the trailing newline, so we can simply print the name to get one filename per line:

         #!/usr/bin/perl           use File::Basename;           while( <STDIN> )     {     my $name = basename( $_ );           print $name;     } 



Learning Perl
Learning Perl, 5th Edition
ISBN: 0596520107
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 232

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