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DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
use DirHandle;
$d = DirHandle->new(".");
if (defined $d) {
while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something($_); }
$d->rewind;
while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something_else($_); }
undef $d;
}
The DirHandle method provide an alternative interface to the
opendir(), closedir(), readdir(), and rewinddir() functions.
The only objective benefit to using DirHandle is that it avoids
namespace pollution by creating globs to hold directory handles.
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package DirHandle; our $VERSION = '1.03';
require 5.000; use Carp; use Symbol; sub new { @_ >= 1 && @_ <= 2 or croak 'usage: DirHandle->new( [DIRNAME] )'; my $class = shift; my $dh = gensym; if (@_) { DirHandle::open($dh, $_[0]) or return undef; } bless $dh, $class; } sub DESTROY { my ($dh) = @_; # Don't warn about already being closed as it may have been closed # correctly, or maybe never opened at all. local($., $@, $!, $^E, $?); no warnings 'io'; closedir($dh); } sub open { @_ == 2 or croak 'usage: $dh->open(DIRNAME)'; my ($dh, $dirname) = @_; opendir($dh, $dirname); } sub close { @_ == 1 or croak 'usage: $dh->close()'; my ($dh) = @_; closedir($dh); } sub read { @_ == 1 or croak 'usage: $dh->read()'; my ($dh) = @_; readdir($dh); } sub rewind { @_ == 1 or croak 'usage: $dh->rewind()'; my ($dh) = @_; rewinddir($dh); } 1;