Hi,
for above issue, you can use this code...

opendir (DIR,dirname);
@dir = grep{!/^\.+/} readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
print join("\n",@dir);

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It will print all the files and the sub directories expect '.' and '..'.
here i modified your code ... 

opendir( DIR, $directory ) or die "open dir error";
my $number = 0;
while(defined($name = readdir (DIR))) {
   if($name eq "") {
       print "Value -$name* is null string."
   }
   next if ($name eq "." || $name eq "..");
   $number++;
   print "Loop $number-->$name**\n";
   # next unless $name =~ /(.*)\.lip$/; 
    push @names, $name;
}

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Regards,
Sankar

In reply to Re: readdir return nul string by sankarraman
in thread readdir return nul string by marscld

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