in reply to reading from directory

You're right on track here. The way I usually do this is as follows:

opendir DIR, "MainDir" or die "";
while( $file = readdir(DIR) )
{
  #do whatever you want to the file
}
closedir DIR;

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One thing to note, this method includes directory names.

If you just want to grep for a string in all .cpp files in the current directory, try using globs (this is still magic to me, btw) like so: 

while( $file = <*.cpp> )
{
  #do something to the file
}

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~CubicSpline
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Re: Re: reading from directory
by moodster (Hermit) on Aug 20, 2002 at 08:32 UTC
    Since there is More Than One Way To Do It, you could also go for the object-oriented approach using DirHandle: 
    use DirHandle;

my $dh = new DirHandle;
$dh->open( 'MainDir' );
foreach ( grep /\.cpp$/, $dh->read ) {
   # do stuff
}
$dh->close;

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    The DirHandle module is a wrapper around opendir and its relatives, so this is essentially the same as CubicSplines answer, just another way of writing it.

    Cheers,
    --Moodster

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