DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles


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NAME

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DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles

SYNOPSIS

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    use DirHandle;
    $d = DirHandle->new(".");
    if (defined $d) {
        while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something($_); }
        $d->rewind;
        while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something_else($_); }
        undef $d;
    }

DESCRIPTION

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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.

NOTES

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perl documentation Contained in the perl distribution.

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;