I have a snippet of code here 

foreach(readdir(PRINT))
{
  #do work
}

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the loop sets up all documents of the appropriate type to be printed in a certain way. PRINT is the directory handle. This works; but to skip the . and .. entries I have to add this as the first line inside the loop 
#Skip . and ..
if(($_ eq ".") or ($_ eq ".."))
{next;}

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What I am wanting to do is slice the list returned by readdir. The problem is, I don't know the size of the list. Is there a way to say.. I want so slice from element [3..$end_of_list] ie slice from element 3 indefinitely until the end of the list. I'm trying to avoid that line of code by using a slice on the anonymous(not sure if the correct terminology) list returned by readdir. Is there a way to pulls this off?

In reply to question regarding slices by Grygonos

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