I am using Strawberry perl on Win7 (64-bit) and have an issue with read_dir. The simple code:

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Slurp;

my @files;    # Array of all file names in the folder.

if($ARGV[0])
{
  @files = read_dir($ARGV[0]);
}
else
{
  @files = read_dir(".");
}

for my $file (@files)
{
  print $file;
  if(-f $file)
  {
    print " is a file.\n";
  }
  else
  {
    print " is a dir.\n";
  }
}
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The file structure used for test:

file1.txt
filetest.pl
folder -> file2.txt
          file3.txt
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Running this on current (working) dir, gives correct output:

file1.txt is a file.
filetest.pl is a file.
folder is a dir.
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but when providing folder as argument, the files in it are not recognized as files:

file2.txt is a dir.
file3.txt is a dir.
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What am I missing?

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