03-04-2008
How to check for empty file in Perl?
Hi,
May I know how to check for empty file in Perl.
Iam missing something, somewhere.
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $open_dir = '/path/';
my $file;
my $ma = "abc_.*.\.psv\$"
opendir(VAR, $open_dir) or die "Can't open $oepn_dir: $!\n";
while( defined ($file = readdir VAR) ) #read all the files in the directory
{
if (($file =~ /$ma/i) && ( -s $file )) {
print $file;
}
}
It doest work.
I doesnt give out any non empty file. pls correct me.
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