Include $! in die part of open(),It will give you the reason, why it can not open the file.

Note that the file names in $file do not include the full path and do include "." and ".." which you probably don't care to have. You can eliminate them with,

@FILES=grep(!/^\.\.?}$/, readdir(DIR));

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The regular expression used in the grep can be extended to filter all sorts of ways, returning only files with a specific extension or starting with some text,etc.

To check for all the subdirectories in a directory, try code like this: 

    $path = shift;
    $path = "." unless $path;
    
    opendir( DIR, $path )
        or die "Can't open $path: $!";
    
    while ( $entry = readdir( DIR ) ) {
        $type = ( -d "$path\\$entry" ) ? "dir" : "file"; # $path is cr
+ucial!
        print "$type\t$entry\n";
    }
    
    closedir( DIR );

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It's a common mistake to leave out the $path from the -d check. If you do this, perl thinks you're talking about files in the current directory. Since the dirs don't -e in your current directory, they definitely don't -d. Exceptions are . and .., which exist in every directory.

opendir, redir, closedir offer the most power and flexibility; but if you just want to read the files out of directory, you can also glob them: 

$path = shift;
$path .= "/*"
while( $name=glob($path) ) { print "$name"; }

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In reply to Re: File handling basics by vinoth.ree
in thread File handling basics by ElectroRed

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