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(minor bug) this will fail on a directory named 0. either use japhy's solution above (which checks the length of @_,) or check $_[0] for definedness, not truth.

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Re: Re: Re: Directory Listing to an Array
by ehdonhon (Curate) on Apr 11, 2002 at 11:41 UTC

    Ohh, yeah. Good point. It will be nice in perl 6 when we can say

     my $dir = shift // '.';

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