in reply to How do I read files in a directory and not directories?

Consider the following: 

|  hand waving on how we got here...
|
opendir(DIR,".") or die $!;
while(my $name=readdir(DIR)){   
    next if -d $name; # takes care of . and .. as well
    | do something with file here...
}

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Certainly not the only solution.. but one of...

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
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