The readdir part looks good to me also.

I would add "use warnings", you can do this even on windows by #!/usr/bin/perl -w, or you can add a "use warnings;" statement.

Then I would get to basics to make sure that the permission denied is where you think that it is: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
opendir (DIR, "C:/Perl/bin/Anti") or die "Couldnt open directory: $!";
@files = readdir DIR;
closedir (DIR);

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The problem might be in opening the file for read, not in the directory read itself. See if that works, then 
foreach $file (@files)
{
  print "$file\n"; #just to make sure this looks right
}

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I would point out in the above that a Directory is a File! If there is a subdir underneath this DIR, then you will get those also! So you may need something like this: 
@files = grep {"$path/$_" -D }readdir DIR;

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update: it might be -D doesn't mean "not a directory" and that you need "not" the little d. Sorry I've forgotten right now.ok, -f is a lot easier!

In reply to Re: Unable to read files from a directory by Marshall
in thread Unable to read files from a directory by antidote1316

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