Re: Re: list of fles in a directory, but use wildcards like *

When I was using,

opendir DIR, $dir;
my @file = grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' } readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;
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to list all files in the directory, opening those files with,

foreach $file (@file){
    open(MYFILE, $dir.$file[$i]) or die qq(Cannot open $file[$i]\n);
....some other stuff
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would work. But now using the glob, it's dying when open the files in the files list.

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Re: Re: Re: list of fles in a directory, but use wildcards like * by LordWeber (Monk) on Sep 04, 2003 at 17:30 UTC
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Re: Re: Re: list of fles in a directory, but use wildcards like * by graff (Chancellor) on Sep 05, 2003 at 05:06 UTC
`foreach $file (@file){ open(MYFILE, $dir.$file[$i]) or die qq(Cannot open $file[$i]\n); ...` [download] Well, in addition to the previous comment about the directory path (which is correct), this snippet would not do what you want because you aren't setting $i; you are using the scalar $file as an iterator variable, which is being set to successive elements of array @file, but then in the loop you are always using the "$i'th" element of @file, and you don't show any indication that this (totally unnecessary) array index counter is being set or incremented. On top of that, your error report is misleading: you try to open a file called `$dir.$file[$i]` and when that fails, you only report trying to open `$file[$i]`, so you would never know when the problem is due to the content of $dir.	[reply] [d/l] [select]