NAME

File::Find::Object::Rule::Procedural - File::Find::Object::Rule's procedural interface

VERSION

version 0.0313

SYNOPSIS

  use File::Find::Object::Rule;

  # find all .pm files, procedurally
  my @files = find(file => name => '*.pm', in => \@INC);

DESCRIPTION

In addition to the regular object-oriented interface, File::Find::Object::Rule provides two subroutines for you to use.

"find( @clauses )"
"rule( @clauses )": "find" and "rule" can be used to invoke any methods available to the OO version. "rule" is a synonym for "find"

Passing more than one value to a clause is done with an anonymous array:

 my $finder = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ] );

"find" and "rule" both return a File::Find::Object::Rule instance, unless one of the arguments is "in", in which case it returns a list of things that match the rule.

 my @files = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ], in => $ENV{HOME} );

Please note that "in" will be the last clause evaluated, and so this code will search for mp3s regardless of size.

 my @files = find( name => '*.mp3', in => $ENV{HOME}, size => '<2k' );
                                                    ^
                                                    |
               Clause processing stopped here ------/

It is also possible to invert a single rule by prefixing it with "!" like so:

 # large files that aren't videos
 my @files = find( file    =>
                   '!name' => [ '*.avi', '*.mov' ],
                   size    => '>20M',
                   in      => $ENV{HOME} );

AUTHOR

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SUPPORT

Websites

The following websites have more information about this module, and may be of help to you. As always, in addition to those websites please use your favorite search engine to discover more resources.

MetaCPAN
A modern, open-source CPAN search engine, useful to view POD in HTML format.

<https://metacpan.org/release/File-Find-Object-Rule>
RT: CPAN's Bug Tracker
The RT ( Request Tracker ) website is the default bug/issue tracking system for CPAN.

<https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-Find-Object-Rule>
CPANTS
The CPANTS is a website that analyzes the Kwalitee ( code metrics ) of a distribution.

<http://cpants.cpanauthors.org/dist/File-Find-Object-Rule>
CPAN Testers
The CPAN Testers is a network of smoke testers who run automated tests on uploaded CPAN distributions.

<http://www.cpantesters.org/distro/F/File-Find-Object-Rule>
CPAN Testers Matrix
The CPAN Testers Matrix is a website that provides a visual overview of the test results for a distribution on various Perls/platforms.

<http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=File-Find-Object-Rule>
CPAN Testers Dependencies
The CPAN Testers Dependencies is a website that shows a chart of the test results of all dependencies for a distribution.

<http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=File::Find::Object::Rule>

Please report any bugs or feature requests by email to "bug-file-find-object-rule at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=File-Find-Object-Rule>. You will be automatically notified of any progress on the request by the system.

Source Code

The code is open to the world, and available for you to hack on. Please feel free to browse it and play with it, or whatever. If you want to contribute patches, please send me a diff or prod me to pull from your repository :)

<https://github.com/shlomif/http://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-file-find-object-rule>

  git clone git://github.com/shlomif/http://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-file-find-object-rule.git

AUTHORS

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>
Andy Lester andy@petdance.com.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website <https://github.com/shlomif/http://bitbucket.org/shlomif/perl-file-find-object-rule/issues>

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.