Anyone have any idea why the -f and -d operators are not working properly here:

Section 1: the code

Section 2: what is in the directory using ls -l

Section 3: what the code outputs.

Section 1: ========================================================= 

use strict;
use gfrmGlobals;

my @files = ();
my $flNm = "";

opendir (DIR, $GCdfltDBexpPrmPthNm) || die "can't open directory\n";
@files = readdir(DIR); 
closedir (DIR); 

foreach $flNm (@files) 
{ 
if ( -f $flNm) { print "is a file: $flNm\n"; }
elsif ( -d $flNm) { print "is a dir: $flNm\n"; }
else { print "neither file nor dir: $flNm\n"; }
}

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Section 2: From a terminal window ========================================================= 


gfrmDev$ cd DBexportFiles
gfrmDev$ ls -l
total 1536
-rw-r--r-- 1 andynic staff 66192 17 Feb 17:43 export_of_gfrm_20110217_
+174314.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 andynic staff 66192 17 Feb 17:51 export_of_gfrm_20110217_
+175005.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 andynic staff 66193 17 Feb 18:30 export_of_gfrm_20110217_
+183048.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 andynic staff 66193 17 Feb 22:08 export_of_gfrm_20110217_
+220832.zip
-rw-r--r-- 1 andynic staff 505830 17 Feb 20:27 importLogOf_export_of_g
+frm_20110217_183048.log
drwxr-xr-x 7 andynic staff 238 18 Feb 12:52 xxxx

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Section 3: The code output; ========================================================= (I would have expected 5 files (*.zip, and *.log) and 3 directories (., .., xxxx), but instead: 


gfrmDev$ perl -w x.pl
is a dir: .
is a dir: ..
is a file: .DS_Store
neither file nor dir: export_of_gfrm_20110217_174314.zip
neither file nor dir: export_of_gfrm_20110217_175005.zip
neither file nor dir: export_of_gfrm_20110217_183048.zip
neither file nor dir: export_of_gfrm_20110217_220832.zip
neither file nor dir: importLogOf_export_of_gfrm_20110217_183048.log
neither file nor dir: xxxx

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Am I doing something weird that I don't see?

perl version 5.10

Mac OS X 10.6

Thanks,

Andynic

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