I tested the following on my Mac, so it uses : instead of /, but it should provide the basis for what you need:
use strict; use warnings; my ($dir, $handle, %mlc, @files, @spider); my $fname = "mlc"; # Main directory to start spidering... push @spider, ':'; while ($dir = shift @spider) { if (-e "$dir$fname") { open($handle, "$dir$fname"); $mlc{$dir} = join '', <$handle>; close($handle); } opendir($handle, $dir); @files = readdir($handle); closedir($handle); for (@files) { push @spider, "$dir$_:" if -d "$dir$_"; } } for (sort keys %mlc) { print "$_\n$mlc{$_}\n\n"; }
Of course, you could make things much simpler and just cycle through all the directories with numbers 0 through x, where x is the maximum possible value:
use strict; use warnings; my (%mlc, $handle); for (0..200) { if (-e ":dir$_:mlc") { open($handle, ":dir$_:mlc"); $mlc{"dir$_"} = join '', <$handle>; close($handle); } } for (sort keys %mlc) { print "$_\n$mlc{$_}\n\n"; }

In reply to Re: opening directories in perl by TedPride
in thread opening directories in perl by Anonymous Monk

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