Hello

You wondered about whether you can do @array = readdir(DIR)

I wonder why you wonder :-). You could've just consulted the perldocs for the answer since it clearly states that:

      readdir DIRHANDLE
               Returns the next directory entry for a directory
               opened by "opendir".  If used in list context,
               returns all the rest of the entries in the direc-
               tory.  If there are no more entries, returns an
               undefined value in scalar context or a null list
               in list context.

Does this help?

Aziz,,,