Howdy all...it's me and my next beginner's problem. So far I have written the following code. It's pretty obvious what it does (at the moment anyway). What I'm having troubles with is getting the directories to print out before the files. The order in which they appear in my while loop doesn't seem to matter which seems kinda weird to me.

Eventually all of it will need to get printed out to a file, but I'll cross that bridge soon (who knows...how I've written this script so far may have pre-burnt that bridge? lemme know please). Also, I'm trying to do this one without using the DirHandle module. 
#!usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

my $dir = "/Users/ctp/perlwork";

opendir (DIRHANDLE, $dir) or die "can't open $dir: $!";

print "<HTML>\n<HEAD></HEAD>\n<BODY>\n";

while ( defined (my $file = readdir DIRHANDLE))
{
next if $file =~ /^\.\.?$/;
print "<B>$file</B><BR>\n" if -d "$dir/$file";
print "$file<BR>\n" if -T "$dir/$file";
}

closedir (DIRHANDLE);
print "</BODY>\n</HTML>\n";

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As always - many thanks in advance!

ps - I'm using strict all the time now...see, I told you I'd get there ;-)

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