Re: (Ovid - reading files) Re: File globbing to a different directory

That did the trick...you are a Perl God in my book. I'll have to study those opendir and readdir functions. But I'm wondering: do you know why my approach failed?

$PM = "Perl Monk's";
$MCF = "Most Clueless Friar";
$nysus = $PM . $MCF;

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(Ovid) Re(3): File globbing to a different directory by Ovid (Cardinal) on Apr 25, 2001 at 02:37 UTC
I have no idea why your approach failed. It looked fine to me. Now that I stop to think about it, I can't see why mine would have worked when your's failed. The benefit of using opendir is that it assigns to `$!` when it fails. File globs and the glob function don't do that (at least, not that I'm aware of). Side note: it's considered cleaner to check for files using the glob function instead of the file globbing operator. I should have suggested that first. When you said that it failed, how did it fail? Was there anything populating your `@photos` array? Cheers, Ovid Join the Perlmonks Setiathome Group or just click on the the link and check out our stats.	[reply]
Re: Re: (Ovid - reading files) Re: File globbing to a different directory by nysus (Parson) on Apr 25, 2001 at 04:04 UTC
Exactly, there was nothing in the array. I didn't get any errors either. $PM = "Perl Monk's"; $MCF = "Most Clueless Friar"; $nysus = $PM . $MCF;	[reply]