As others have said, the problem is that "readdir()" returns file names, and the "-f" test needs the path of the directory being read to be attached to each file name, in order to find each file.

One other point: you could do what you want in a single pass, using "grep": 

my $path = "C:/some/path";

opendir( ORIG, $path ) or die "opendir failed on $path: $!";

my @filesInDir = grep { -f "$path/$_" } readdir( ORIG );

closedir ORIG;

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How easy is that? If you really want to list all the files and non-files to STDOUT while you're reading the directory (which you'll probably get tired of quickly), here's what I would put in place of that single grep line: 
while ( my $file = readdir( ORIG ))
{
    my $verb = "isn't";
    if ( -f "$path/$file" ) {
        push @filesInDir, "$path/$file";
        $verb = "is";
    }
    print "$path/$file $verb a file\n";
}

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Personally, I like the shorter version better.

In reply to Re: file's treatment by graff
in thread file's treatment by boby_drack

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