Hi all, I have a little subroutine that returns "1" if a given directory has any subdirs, and "0" if not: which all works fine, but if I open test lots of dirs, it takes ages grinding away at my hard disk... Can anyone think of a better way that this: 
sub hasSubs {
    my $dir = shift;
    my $hasSubs=0;
    if (!($dir eq "\\")) { $dir="$dir\\"; }

    opendir (CURRENT, $dir) || die("Cannot open the dir: $dir");
    foreach my $file (readdir(CURRENT))
        {
        next if (($file eq ".") || ($file eq ".."));
         if (-d $dir.$file)
             {
             $hasSubs = 1;
             last;
            }
        }
    closedir CURRENT;
    return $hasSubs;
}

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I also tried this: 
my @subDirList=`dir /ad /b \"$dir\"`;
    if ($#subDirList >= 0) { $hasSubs=1; }
    for (my $counter = 0; $counter <= $#subDirList; $counter++)
        {
         chomp $subDirList[$counter];
         $hasSubs = 1;
        }

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Which worked better on some dirs, but slower on others :( 
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                     `6_ 6  )   `-.  (     ).`-.__.`)
                     (_Y_.)'  ._   )  `._ `. ``-..-'
                   _..`--'_..-_/  /--'_..' ,'
                 (il),-''  (li),'  ((!.-'

In reply to Testing for existance of subdirectories by ChrisNutting

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