You need to find out how many files & directories there are? Try this out: 
opendir (THEDIR, $theDir) || die "Could not read $theDir - $!\n";

my ($filesFound, $dirsFound);
for my $fileFound (readdir(THEDIR)) {
   next if ($fileFound eq '.' || $fileFound eq '..');
   if (-d $fileFound) {
      # we found a directory...
      $dirsFound++;
   } else {
      # looks like it's a file...
      $filesFound++;
   }
}

if ($filesFound) {
   print "Found $filesFound files in $theDir.\n";
} else {
   print "No files were found in $theDir.\n";
}

if ($dirsFound) {
   print "Found $dirsFound directories in $theDir.\n";
} else {
   print "No directories were found in $theDir.\n";
}

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In reply to Re: A couple of ?'s by vek
in thread Finding files and subdirectories in a directory (was: A couple of ?'s) by Anonymous Monk

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