=head1 NAME File::Find::Rule::Procedural - File::Find::Rule's procedural interface =head1 SYNOPSIS use File::Find::Rule; # find all .pm files, procedurally my @files = find(file => name => '*.pm', in => \@INC); =head1 DESCRIPTION In addition to the regular object-oriented interface, L provides two subroutines for you to use. =over =item C =item C C and C can be used to invoke any methods available to the OO version. C is a synonym for C =back Passing more than one value to a clause is done with an anonymous array: my $finder = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ] ); C and C both return a File::Find::Rule instance, unless one of the arguments is C, in which case it returns a list of things that match the rule. my @files = find( name => [ '*.mp3', '*.ogg' ], in => $ENV{HOME} ); Please note that C will be the last clause evaluated, and so this code will search for mp3s regardless of size. my @files = find( name => '*.mp3', in => $ENV{HOME}, size => '<2k' ); ^ | Clause processing stopped here ------/ It is also possible to invert a single rule by prefixing it with C like so: # large files that aren't videos my @files = find( file => '!name' => [ '*.avi', '*.mov' ], size => '>20M', in => $ENV{HOME} ); =head1 AUTHOR Richard Clamp =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2003 Richard Clamp. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =head1 SEE ALSO L =cut