sub DELETE {
my($dh,$key) = @_;
- # Only unlink if unlink-ing is enabled
- my $file = File::Spec->catfile(${*$dh}{io_dir_path}, $key);
+ # Only unlink if unlink-ing is enabled
return 0
unless ${*$dh}{io_dir_unlink};
+ my $file = File::Spec->catfile(${*$dh}{io_dir_path}, $key);
+
-d $file
? rmdir($file)
: unlink($file);
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use IO::Dir;
- $d = new IO::Dir ".";
+ $d = IO::Dir->new(".");
if (defined $d) {
while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something($_); }
$d->rewind;
undef $d;
}
- tie %dir, IO::Dir, ".";
+ tie %dir, 'IO::Dir', ".";
foreach (keys %dir) {
print $_, " " , $dir{$_}->size,"\n";
}
=back
C<IO::Dir> also provides an interface to reading directories via a tied
-HASH. The tied HASH extends the interface beyond just the directory
+hash. The tied hash extends the interface beyond just the directory
reading routines by the use of C<lstat>, from the C<File::stat> package,
C<unlink>, C<rmdir> and C<utime>.
=over 4
-=item tie %hash, IO::Dir, DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
+=item tie %hash, 'IO::Dir', DIRNAME [, OPTIONS ]
=back
-The keys of the HASH will be the names of the entries in the directory.
+The keys of the hash will be the names of the entries in the directory.
Reading a value from the hash will be the result of calling
-C<File::stat::lstat>. Deleting an element from the hash will call C<unlink>
-providing that C<DIR_UNLINK> is passed in the C<OPTIONS>.
+C<File::stat::lstat>. Deleting an element from the hash will
+delete the corresponding file or subdirectory,
+provided that C<DIR_UNLINK> is included in the C<OPTIONS>.
-Assigning to an entry in the HASH will cause the time stamps of the file
+Assigning to an entry in the hash will cause the time stamps of the file
to be modified. If the file does not exist then it will be created. Assigning
-a single integer to a HASH element will cause both the access and
+a single integer to a hash element will cause both the access and
modification times to be changed to that value. Alternatively a reference to
an array of two values can be passed. The first array element will be used to
set the access time and the second element will be used to set the modification
=head1 COPYRIGHT
-Copyright (c) 1997-8 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>. All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 1997-2003 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.