A friend of mine just pointed me to this rather odd behavior on active perl. Just wondering if anybody else knows about why this happens. The code segment presented below executes fine on A Perl 5.6 but on 5.8 it doesn't seem to hit the "if" at all, anybody else observe this or know why it might happen ?? 
opendir(ODIR,"c:/") || die "Cannot open this directory: $!"; 

while($name=readdir(ODIR)) { 
    print "## inside while\n";
    if(-d $name) { 
        print "## inside if \n";
#        ...
#        ...
    }
}

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Pl. note that when I try to read the same directory with something like this, everything is fine 
while (<c:/*>) { 
    if (-d) { print "$_ is a directory\n" } 
    else { print "$_ is a file\n"; } 
}

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Thanks in advance ..

In reply to odd behaviour with opendir() by barathbr

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