[plug] A question for perl hackers

[Arie Hol]

At 10:07 AM 30-08-2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Friday 30 August 2002 09:45, Trevor Phillips wrote:
>> I'm a bit late to this thread, but here's my $0.02...
>
>Oops!!
>Forgot to also mention: If you're just generally talking about getting sizes 
>of files in a directory, I'd use opendir()/readdir()/closedir() to read the 
>directory, and -s or stat() to get the size of the files. ^_^
>
>ie; Don't call or rely on external programs when you can do it more 
>efficiently in Perl itself...
>
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Regards Arie

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