thanx for your feedback! i still don't understand why it didn't work tho!

the useful parts

  • leave nothing inside while loop = no while loop!
  • use "die" with open/opendir
  • no need to quote "$dir" in open

    the ignored parts

  • i think my variable names are more meaningful than most, actually. They are distinctly different from one another and they are short. What would you call "%hash", "%associativearraywithcountforeachfile->key"? There is only one hash, and %hash is it. "$this" appears 3 times across 6 lines...it could be "$filecontent" i guess but i use "this" and "that" like tweedledee uses tweedledum. Kind of. "this" and "that"; it's cute ;P

  • whitespace, smightspace. what about the aesthetic value of having the last two lines the same length? Surely that contributes to readability, albeit "in a different sense".

    thanks again -- take care

    In reply to Re^2: regexp for directory by halfcountplus
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