Prepending the filename was what I needed as well - I assumed that something would "remember" from the opendir.

Well, I can imagine people assume the results from readdir have the directory name prepended. But if you think so, you wouldn't use /^\./ to weed out filenames, would you? Because then you would either select all filenames in the directory, or none at all, depending whether the directory name starts with a dot or not.

Abigail