NAME

File::Find::Rule - Alternative interface to File::Find

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 );

DEPENDENCIES

This module has external dependencies on the following modules:

 Cwd
 File::Find
 File::Spec
 Number::Compare
 Test::More
 Text::Glob

INSTALLATION

 perl Build.PL
 perl Build test

and if all goes well

 perl Build install

HISTORY

What changed over the last 3 revisions

0.20_02 25th June, 2003

        - MANIFEST fixes (thanks to the cpan smokers)

0.20_01 22nd June 2003

        - 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.

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

AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net> 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.

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.

SEE ALSO

File::Find, Text::Glob, Number::Compare, find(1)

If you want to know about the procedural interface, see File::Find::Rule::Procedural, and if you have an idea for a neat extension File::Find::Rule::Extending