Hello,

I'm a Perl newbie, which should become obvious from the question I am about to ask.

I'm running Perl from the command line on a windows box (Active Perl 5.8.8).

Ultimately, I want to write a program that will search all of the files in a directory for a RegEx and write the results back to a file. It sounds simple enough, but I need to learn to walk first. For starters I'm trying to write a script that will allow me to input the directory name and it will return a list of files in that directory.

My script almost works. Can some one, please, help me? My script is posted below. I think my problem is with my use of <STDIN>.

thanks,
that one guy

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

  sub namedir {
    print "Enter the directory path you want to search: ";
    $dir = <STDIN>;    
  }

  sub dirme {
    if (! $dir){
        &namedir;
    }
    print "\n\nFiles in $dir\n";
    opendir(BIN, $dir) or die "Can't open $dir: $!";
    while( defined ($file = readdir BIN) ) {
        # list files
        print "$file\n";
    }
    closedir(BIN);
  }    
  &dirme;

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2006-04-06 Retitled by g0n, as per Monastery guidelines
Original title: '...a little help, please'

In reply to How to read from STDIN? by that one guy

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