Re: how to iterate through a list of files in a directory and comparethem to an index.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

John W. Krahn wrote:
> Angus Glanville wrote:
> >

<snip>

> > My final goal is to normalize the names so that they are the same 
> > case on the file system as indicated in the index file.

<snip>

> You probably need to use the -e (exists) file test operator:
>
> while ( my $line = <INDEX> ) {
>     chomp $line;
>     my ( $raw_name, $std_name ) = split /\|/, $line;
>     if ( -e "$pdf_dir/$std_name" ) {
>         print "I found this: $std_name\n";
>     }
> }

Since case may differ, that code might fail to find some of the files 
(at least on non-Windows platforms).

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