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kovlensky
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Dec 8, 2008, 2:47 PM

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case insensitive -e test	Can't Post

Imagine that I've got file path which exists. Like "/home/user/aaa.txt". The issue is that is exists - but with broken case sensitivity. It means that it can arrive like "/HOme/uSer/aaA.Txt". Now the question is - how to sort its case sensitiveness, for example to get "/AAA.txt" as argument, verify that is doesn't exists, but "/aaa.txt" does, so correct the path and display the corrected one? That's more logic question that perl one, but I do need to do that in perl.

Damn windows users, they don't care about lettercase at all...

winfinit
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Dec 8, 2008, 3:11 PM

Post #2 of 4 (222 views)

Re: [kovlensky] case insensitive -e test [In reply to]	Can't Post

i think what you are looking for is /i in regex, you can read content of your dir via readdir and then match it against the entries in the file that contains names and write each matched entry to a new file. that way you will get a list of correct names in one place.

KevinR
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Dec 8, 2008, 3:11 PM

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Re: [kovlensky] case insensitive -e test [In reply to]	Can't Post

if all the files to be checked are always lower case you can convert the argument to lower case using lc()

Code

$string = lc ($string); 
if (-e $string) { 
    .... 
}

but if the file on the server can be mixed case in any order this will prove to be a difficult task and could find files you dont want it to since AAA.txt and aaa.txt would be two different files on a case sensitive OS.
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kovlensky
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Dec 8, 2008, 3:29 PM

Post #4 of 4 (220 views)

Re: case insensitive -e test [In reply to]	Can't Post

Winfinit - it is not guaranteed that dirs have correct lettercase. I can guarantee for leading slash only.Yes, I know that I can go directory by directory till I reach the last file, but there must be an easy way. I can find few really hard ones, but perl is for making life easy, right?:)

KevinR - it is not always lowercase. And there will always be one file possible only - full directory tree is rsynced from windows.

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