NAME

Find::File::Iterator - Iterator interface for search files

SYNOPSIS

use File::Find::Iterator;
my $find = File::Find::Iterator->new(dir => ["/home", "/var"],
                                     filter => \&isdir);

while (my $f = $find->next) { print "file : $f\n" }

#reread with different filter 
$find->filter(\&ishtml);
$find->first;
while (my $f = $find->next) { print "file : $f\n" }

# using file for storing state
$find->statefile($statefile);
$find->first;
# this time it could crash
while (my $f = $find->next) 
{ print "file : $f\n" }

DESCRIPTION

Find::File::Iterator is an iterator object for searching through directory trees. You can easily run filter on each file name. You can easily save the search state when you want to stop the search and continue the same search later.

new(%opt)

This is the constructor. The %opt accept the following key :

dir => \@dir

which take a reference to a list of directory.

filter => \&code

which take a code reference

statefile => $file

which take a filename

next

calling this method make one iteration. It return file name or undef if there is no more work to do.

first

calling this method make an initialisation of the iterator. You can use it for do a search again, but with some little change (directory root, statefile option, different filter).

dir([ \@dir ])

this method get or set the directory list for the search.

filter([ \&code ])

this method get or set the filter method use by next method.

statefile([ $file ])

this method get or set the name of the file use for store state of the search (see "STORING STATE").

STORING STATE

If the option statefile of the constructor or the statefile field of the object is set, the iterator use the Storable module to record is internal state after one iteration and to set is internal state before a new iteration. With this mechanism you can continue your search after an error occurred.

AUTHOR

Robert Silve <robert@silve.net>