Alright, I'm relatively new to perl, and I think this is a pretty simple question, but for some reason my code outputs nothing. I just want to open a directory, read the filenames of all the files in it, and output that array to a file. When I run the code I just get a .txt file with nothing it in. opendir(DIR, "C:\AATv2"); my @files = readdir(DIR); closedir(DIR); open(OUT, ">environments.txt"); foreach $f (@files){ print OUT "$f\n"; } close(out); Thanks in advance. I'm also unsure why I can't put any newlines in my code. Sorry I'm a n00b at this website too.

In reply to reading contents of directory and printing to file. by rgb96

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