File::stat(3p)   Perl Programmers Reference Guide  File::stat(3p)


NAME
       File::stat - by-name interface to Perl's built-in stat()
       functions

SYNOPSIS
        use File::stat;
        $st = stat($file) or die "No $file: $!";
        if ( ($st->mode & 0111) && $st->nlink > 1) ) {
            print "$file is executable with lotsa links\n";
        }

        use File::stat qw(:FIELDS);
        stat($file) or die "No $file: $!";
        if ( ($st_mode & 0111) && $st_nlink > 1) ) {
            print "$file is executable with lotsa links\n";
        }

DESCRIPTION
       This module's default exports override the core stat() and
       lstat() functions, replacing them with versions that
       return "File::stat" objects.  This object has methods that
       return the similarly named structure field name from the
       stat(2) function; namely, dev, ino, mode, nlink, uid, gid,
       rdev, size, atime, mtime, ctime, blksize, and blocks.

       You may also import all the structure fields directly into
       your namespace as regular variables using the :FIELDS
       import tag.  (Note that this still overrides your stat()
       and lstat() functions.)  Access these fields as variables
       named with a preceding "st_" in front their method names.
       Thus, "$stat_obj->dev()" corresponds to $st_dev if you
       import the fields.

       To access this functionality without the core overrides,
       pass the "use" an empty import list, and then access func-
       tion functions with their full qualified names.  On the
       other hand, the built-ins are still available via the
       "CORE::" pseudo-package.

BUGS
       As of Perl 5.8.0 after using this module you cannot use
       the implicit $_ or the special filehandle "_" with stat()
       or lstat(), trying to do so leads into strange errors.
       The workaround is for $_ to be explicit

           my $stat_obj = stat $_;

       and for "_" to explicitly populate the object using the
       unexported and undocumented populate() function with
       CORE::stat():

           my $stat_obj = File::stat::populate(CORE::stat(_));





perl v5.8.8                 2002-10-27                          1





File::stat(3p)   Perl Programmers Reference Guide  File::stat(3p)


NOTE
       While this class is currently implemented using the
       Class::Struct module to build a struct-like class, you
       shouldn't rely upon this.

AUTHOR
       Tom Christiansen


















































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