I'm writing my first ever script to delete non numeric files from various directories and I'm not too sure which way I should get the file names.
I have got a foreach loop working but it doesn't list the . files. My opendir does list the files though.
My O'Reilly Learning Perl doesn't have an explanation that I can find.
Is my opendir use better or more efficient etc that the foreach command?
Do I have to do multiple foreach's and include a (</xxx/*>) or (</xxx/.*>)>.
I have included my test script as well (it even works!).
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use diagnostics;
my @dirvar="";
my $foreachvar="";

opendir(DIRHAN,"/xxx");
@dirvar = readdir(DIRHAN);
print "@dirvar\n";
closedir(DIRHAN);

foreach $foreachvar (</xxx/*>)
   { if (-f $foreachvar) {print "$foreachvar \n" } }

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Many Thanks,
Dobby
P.S. sory about the format, I'm trying to get to grips with this <code><br> stuff. Its HTML isn't it?

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