I don't have 5.005 handy for testing but perhaps this will work:

opendir(DIR, '/var/www/htdocs') or die $!;
my @entries = grep{/.*\.html$/} readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
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Update: or do this properly as chipmunk suggests (my die was also added later - you'd think I'd learn to be more careful when pasting from a 1-liner test...)

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I'd like to be able to assign to an luser