README for File::Find::Rule 0.2 =head1 NAME File::Find::Rule - Alternative interface to File::Find =head1 SYNOPSIS use File::Find::Rule; # find all the subdirectories of a given directory my @subdirs = File::Find::Rule->directory->in( $directory ); # find all the .pm files in @INC my @files = File::Find::Rule->file() ->name( '*.pm' ) ->in( @INC ); # as above, but without method chaining my $rule = File::Find::Rule->new; $rule->file; $rule->name( '*.pm' ); my @files = $rule->in( @INC ); =head1 DEPENDENCIES This module has external dependencies on the following modules: Cwd File::Find File::Spec Number::Compare Test::More Text::Glob =head1 INSTALLATION perl Build.PL perl Build test and if all goes well perl Build install =head1 HISTORY What changed over the last 3 revisions =over =item 0.20 8th September, 2003 - relative flag - Fix maxdepth? - this is undertested. - MANIFEST fixes (thanks to the cpan smokers) - split the documentation of the procedural interface out to File::Find::Rule::Procedural, as people often seem to get confused that the method calls don't take anonymous arrays after seeing the procedural code that did - Chunky internal restructure. Now we compile a match sub from code fragments. Though more complex, this is a big speed win as it eliminates a lot of the subroutine dispatch. - During the restructure we lost the ->test method. I hope that it's not missed, since maintining it through a deprecation cycle would be fiddly with the current _compile code. - Split the findrule tests into their own file, and just skip the tricky ones on Win32. =item 0.11 29th July, 2003 - Fix Win32 test failures (rt.cpan.org #3047) =item 0.10 10th March 2003 - fixup an accidental warning in the stat-based tests. Caught by Alex Gough (rt.cpan.org #2138) - make the findrule tests more win32 safe/shell independent (picked up by Philip Newton) - autogenerate READMEs from bits and pieces =back =head1 AUTHOR Richard Clamp with input gained from this use.perl discussion: http://use.perl.org/~richardc/journal/6467 Additional proofreading and input provided by Kake, Greg McCarroll, and Andy Lester andy@petdance.com. =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2002,2003 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. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L, find(1) If you want to know about the procedural interface, see L, and if you have an idea for a neat extension L