UPDATE 1-8-03 - I have posted the finished version to the end of this post so others may happen upon it when in need.

Ahhh...more intro Perl homework goodness. :)

So far, with your kind assistance, I have written;

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

open (OUTFILE, ">>midterm.html");

my $dir = "/Users/ctp/PERL_work";
my @dirs;
my @files;

# read all entries from dir and skip '.' and '..' directories
opendir (DIRHANDLE, $dir) or die "can't open $dir: $!";

my @list=grep !/^\.\.?\z/, readdir DIRHANDLE;

print (OUTFILE "<HTML>\n<HEAD></HEAD>\n<BODY>\n");

# now we sort the list on directory basis
foreach my $file (sort {-d "$dir/$b" <=> -d "$dir/$a"} @list)
{
  print "<B>$file</B><BR>\n" if -d "$dir/$file";
  print "$file<BR>\n" if -T "$dir/$file";
}

closedir (DIRHANDLE);

print @dirs;

print (OUTFILE "</BODY>\n</HTML>\n");
close (OUTFILE);

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Inside the foreach loop I have two print statements. I want that output to also go to my OUTFILE. I have tried printing them to the filehandle directly, I have tried pushing the output into an array, I have tried a few other things, all of which produced syntax errors. None of my books have any examples that are even close...not that I can find anyway.

BTW - In my previous (part one) query an anonymous monk suggested perldoc -f open and perldoc-f select. After poring over perldoc -f in three books I'm still; not getting how to make use of that one...not that that's what I want to do or not do necessarily, but it was brought up

Thanks again!

PS - as always, since this is homework, if you know of a good example please direct me to it (print or online) so I can read up!

--begin final version-- 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;

#open file for output
open (OUTFILE, ">>dircontents.html");

#declare $dir variable and set our directory
my $dir = "/Users/ctp/PERL_work";

# create dir handle read all entries from directory
opendir (DIRHANDLE, $dir) or die "can't open $dir: $!";

#skip "." and ".." directories
my @list=grep !/^\.\.?\z/, readdir DIRHANDLE;

#print HTML header to our file
print (OUTFILE "<HTML>\n<HEAD></HEAD>\n<BODY>\n");

# sort the list on directory basis and close dir handle
foreach my $file (sort {-d "$dir/$b" <=> -d "$dir/$a"} @list)
{
  print (OUTFILE "<B>$file</B><BR>\n") if -d "$dir/$file";
  print (OUTFILE "$file<BR>\n") if -T "$dir/$file";
}
closedir (DIRHANDLE);

#print HTML footer to file and close filehandle
print (OUTFILE "</BODY>\n</HTML>\n");
close (OUTFILE);

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In reply to reading files and directories, part two by ctp

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