NAME

Win32::FindFile - simple unicode directory reader under Win32

SYNOPSIS

  use Win32::FindFile;
  use bytes;
  
  my @txt_files = FindFile( "*.txt" );
  my @dir_content = ReadDir( "." );

  # and finally
  # print entire directory content in unicode 
  #
  for ( @dir_content ){
	next unless $file->is_entry # skip over '.', '..'
	next if $file->is_hidden; # skip over hidden files
	next if $file->is_system; # etc

	next if $file->ftCreationTime   > time -10; # skip over files created recently
	next if $file->ftLastWriteTime  > time -10;
	next if $file->ftLastAccessTime > time -10; 

	next if $file->FileSize == 0; # 

	print $file->relName( "$dirname" ), "\n" ; # same as "dirname/$file" (Unix style)
	print $file->relName( "$dirname", "\\" ), "\n" ; # same as "dirname\\$file" (Win style)

	print $file, "\n"; # $file->cFileName
	print $file->dosName, "\n";

	my $s = $file->dwFileAttributes; # Get all attribytes
  };

  print "Current directory is ", GetCurrentDirectory(), "\n";

DESCRIPTION

Win32::FindFile are simple tool for reading unicode dir content. It call kernel32.dll unicode functions
FindFirstFileW, FindNextFileW, and covert UTF-16 to utf8 and back there is needed.

Main Function is FindFile that take pattern of form '*' or '$directory\*' or more complex "$directory\*.txt"
and return records from FileFileNextW as Class.

Other function are utility functions as Copy, Move, GetCurrentDirectory, SetCurrentDirectory, ... etc.

EXPORT

FindFile

FindFile( $GlobPattern ); 

@file_matches = FindFile( "$Dir\*" ) or "warn not files match";
@file_matches = FindFile( "*" ) ; # list current directory;
@file_matches = FindFile( "A*") ; # list files beginning with A letter

GetCurrentDirectory

$curpwd = CurrentDirectory();

SetCurrentDirectory

SetCurrentDirectory( $next_curpwd ); # set current directory

GetFullPathName

	$absolute_path = GetFullPathName( $filename ) 

    Expand file name to absolute path

DeleteFile( $file )

CopyFile($from, $to, $fail_if_overwrite)

MoveFile($from, $to)

RemoveDirectory( $dir )

CreateDirectory( $dir )

GetBinaryType( $file )

GetCompressedFileSize($file)

GetFileAttributes($file)

GetFileAttributes( $file, $attr )

GetLongPathName( $file )

AreFileApisANSI

SetFileApisToOEM

SetFileApisToANSI

SEE ALSO

Win32, Win32API, Win32::UNICODE, Win32::LongPath

AUTHOR

A. G. Grishaev, <grian@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2014 by A. G. Grishaev

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.10.1 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.