Re: opening all files in a directory

Use a plain readdir...

opendir(DIR,"."); 
@Files = readdir(DIR); 
closedir(DIR);
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Beatnik
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Re: Re: opening all files in a directory by cLive ;-) (Prior) on May 14, 2001 at 07:59 UTC
appendum... You might want to do this `@Files = grep /\w/, readdir(DIR);` [download] to avoid reading . and .. into the array. cLive ;-) Update:d'oh - thanks Randal. Appendum to appendum... "assuming your file names containword chars".	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Re: opening all files in a directory by merlyn (Sage) on May 14, 2001 at 08:13 UTC
But that'll miss the perfectly legitimate file named "!!!". Why are you ruling all of those out? The most straightforward is: `@files = grep { $_ ne "." and $_ ne ".." } readdir DIR;` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]