NAME
Text::FileTree - convert a list of files with full paths to a tree
DESCRIPTION
A file list can be organized in a number of ways. The two that most probably comes to mind is a "state free" way, where each file is listed with full path and doesn't depend on its context. The find command outputs files in this way.
There is also the "stateful" way of display file lists, where each file is sorted by its common parents. E.g., instead of
foo/bar
foo/bazyou might have the following structure instead:
foo/
bar
bazThis module does just that, converts a "plain" file listing in to the "stateful", directory sorted, way.
CONSTRUCTOR
my $ft = Text::FileTree->new( );
my $ft_w32 = Text::FileTree->new( platform => 'Win32' );Create a FileTree parser object. By default, it assume the files are in the platform native format, but this can be overriden. Internally, File::Spec is used, but by specifiying a platform parameter File::Spec::<platform> is used instead.
METHODS
parse
from_file
Load the file list from a file.
from_fh
Load the file list from a filehandle (or a filename). Examples:
open(my $pipe, '-|', 'find', '/');
Text::FileTree::from_fh($pipe);AVAILABILITY AND BUG REPORTING
Latest released version is available through CPAN. Latest development version is available on github:
Bugs can be reported on either rt.cpan.org, as an issue on github or as an e-mail to me. The primary issue tracker is github.
KNOWN BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
This module does not separate between a file and a directory. This only affects leaf nodes, as you can deduce that a file with children is indeed a directory. This is unlikely to be fixed, as there is really no way of distinguish them in, say, the output from find. Often, you should be able to determine this by context: e.g. by giving find the -type f flag --- now all leaf nodes are regular files.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2012 - Olof Johansson <olof@cpan.org> All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.