Hi Grygonos,

While it "gets the job done", a couple things jumped out at me that I felt were important enought to comment on.

First of all, the big one: foreach (2..$#entries) Try running this on the root of your C drive, which doesn't have the "." and ".." entries. You'll miss the first two directories.

opendir DIR, 'c:/'; print join "\n", (readdir(DIR))[0,1]; __END__ output on my system: 2dvtllhn.sys ADOBEAPP
Also, it seems that . and .. are always listed first in the directory, but I've never seen it documented. I certainly wouldn't depend on it.

Second, using the -d test instead of if(opendir(TEST,$item)) to test for a directory would be more efficient as well as more readable.


In reply to Re^2: Reading directory structure? by bmann
in thread Reading directory structure? by Seventh

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