How to read contents of directory into an array?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi guys,

Im a novice to PERL and find the Active PERL API conventions somewhat confusing. Im trying to read the contents of a directory into an array for processing.

Can anyone help me....................?????

Pretty please with sugar on top....

Thanks v. much.

Pete.

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Re: Help Me Please! by c-era (Curate) on Aug 06, 2001 at 18:20 UTC
You should lookup the functions `opendir` and `readdir`. Here is an example: `my @files; opendir (DIR,"my/dir") \|\| die $!; @files = readdir (DIR); closedir (DIR) \|\| die $!;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Help Me Please! by physi (Friar) on Aug 06, 2001 at 18:24 UTC
look at `perldoc -f opendir` and `perldoc -f readdir` This should help you. `----------------------------------- --the good, the bad and the physi-- -----------------------------------` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Help Me Please! by kilinrax (Deacon) on Aug 06, 2001 at 18:22 UTC
The function you're probably looking for is readdir.	[reply]
Re: Help Me Please! by IraTarball (Monk) on Aug 06, 2001 at 18:58 UTC
You might find `glob()` usefull. Or maybe it's alias `<>`. This let's you get the current directory contents with something like: `my @dir = <>;` [download] You can use the `glob()` function to get the contents of a directory other than the current directory. Have a look at `perldoc -f glob` for more info. Ira, "So... What do all these little arrows mean?" ~unknown	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to read contents of directory into an array? by TStanley (Canon) on Aug 07, 2001 at 02:04 UTC
The File::Slurp module from CPAN will also do what you require. `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use File::Slurp; my $DIR="directory"; my @Files=read_dir($DIR); my $ln=@Files; for(my $x=0;$x<$ln;$x++){ print"File: $Files[$x]\n"; }` [download] This module is also available for ActiveState Perl as well, by using the PPM. TStanley -------- There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out -- Douglas Adams/Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	[reply] [d/l]


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