This is really frustrating....what my program is supposed to do, is take a directory path as input from a user, and get the contents of the said directory. the program runs on a windows system, btw. 
$dir = <>; # get directory from STDIN
$dir =~ s/\//\\/g; # clean up the path a bit
opendir(DIR,"$dir"); # open directory $dir
@files = readdir(DIR); # read directory contents into @files
closedir(DIR);

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the problem is, readdir() doesn't return any results. the directories I enter are full of files, when i run the debugger, $dir is indeed a perfectly fine directory path, and it works fine when i put a static path in opendir() instead of $dir (such as "c:\\windows\\mycrap"). i can't understand why it isn't working. And i'm not using strict or anything.

In reply to Can't seem to see the problem here... by Anonymous Monk

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