I need the wisdom of PerlMonks!!! I am running a script that opens a directory and puts files that end in .html into an array. The directory contains 1 million files total, with about half of them having the .html extension. When I run my script I get "Out of Memory": Here is how I am getting pushing the files into the array: 

opendir(DIR, $accumulatorDir) or die "$!\n";
        my @jrnFiles = map $_, grep /\.html$/, readdir DIR;
        closedir(DIR);

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Is there another alternative I can use that is semi-efficient? Java has no problem doing this with their "java.io.File.listFiles"

In reply to Using READDIR runs out of memory by DenairPete

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