opendir(DIRHANDLE,"/usr/darren") || die "file to open";

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"file to open"?!? How 'bout $! anyway? (Check perldoc perlvar.)

Whatever, I really wonder why people insist so much in reinventing the wheel where a simple glob would do.

@FILES = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir DIRHANDLE;

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Is '.' fine? I mean: I'm not saying it is not. Simply generally people who reinvent the wheel do throw away it too...
By using the above method, will will get all the listing including the directory and files. how can i only show the directory in /usr/darren/?

-d is your friend. Check perldoc -f -X: 

my @dirs=grep -d, </usr/darren/*>;  # Whoa it's one line!!

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In reply to Re: get directory listing by blazar
in thread get directory listing by darrengan

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