passing "%20" in a url to Perl via CGI

[Madison Kelly]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 08:44:11AM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
> 
>>  I'll be adding the "%25" substitute in now to test. A question 
>>though; would one of those 'pm' modules do this well:
>>
>>- I use 'ls' to pass the file names in a directory to perl
> 
> 
> readdir is probably better and more efficient than using ls.  Well
> readdir and stat maybe,  Calling fork and exec to another process is not
> the cheapest system call to make.

Hi,

   I've heard this before and I have been too distracted to look into it 
deeper (I had other code to write and that "worked"). Now though it's 
getting more important because the file scan can take a -long- time. Can 
I use 'readdir' to get the same information that I can get with:

ls -lAh --full-time

?

It's very important that I get as much information on each file and 
directory as possible. Thanks!!

Madison
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