What is the "Stat module"?
Terry Carroll
Any idea what the "Stat" module is? I was looking up how to use the stat
function in the camel2 book, and in the index, directly under the entry
for "stat function" it says "Stat module, 452".
Page 452 discusses Getopt::Std, and no sign of any kind of Stat module.
Anyone know what this is?
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Tom Christiansen
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In comp.lang.perl.misc,
car...@tjc.com (Terry Carroll) writes:
:Any idea what the "Stat" module is? I was looking up how to use the stat
:function in the camel2 book, and in the index, directly under the entry
:for "stat function" it says "Stat module, 452".
Hm.... probably the mad indexer :-) was thinking of that old
Stat.pl library. For a better approach that will likely be
blessed into the 5.004 release, see my recently posted "obstruct"
(object structures) suite. You can use this right out of the box
for what Stat.pl does.
--tom
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Terry Carroll
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On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> Hm.... probably the mad indexer :-) was thinking of that old
> Stat.pl library. For a better approach that will likely be
> blessed into the 5.004 release, see my recently posted "obstruct"
> (object structures) suite. You can use this right out of the box
> for what Stat.pl does.
First, Tom, the name "obstruct" is inspired!
Thanks for the pointer to stat.pl. I looked at it, and my curiosity is
now sated. It looks like it wouldn't have been any major help for my
particular application -- I was hoping to find something that could
interpret the file mode without my having to learn the intricacies of bit
manipulation in Perl (which ended up not taking me as long as I expected,
with a little experimentation and some strategically-selected print
statements).
Are there any modules that are helpful in using the stat function? I've
been toying with trying to write a module, and if none exists for this, I
may just do it as an exercise, and post it if it's any good.