Most of the time, I tend to prefer glob to opendir followed by readdir, but that's mostly stylistic.

For glob, you would do something vaguely like:

my @list = glob('*');

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I believe glob ignores hidden files (on *ix, files with names starting with "."), while readdir doesn't. With readdir, you'll always get at least two files, as . (the directory itself) and .. (its parent) will (almost) always show up (offhand, I don't know if .. will show up for the root directory on *ix), so you'll have to handle these if you're going to recurse through a directory tree, a la find.

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