Re: Adding Files in a directory to an array

Yeah, you can't do that, because Perl gets confused between the globbing operator (<*.txt>) and the file input operator (<FILE>).

The way to do it it to use the glob function instead.

$searchcontacts = "cd32/*.cd";
@allcontacts = glob($searchcontacts);
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Re:{2} Adding Files in a directory to an array by jeroenes (Priest) on Oct 09, 2001 at 15:10 UTC
Not exactly. While it is better (and I mean really, really better) to use the functional glob, you still can force perl to interpolate variables. Actually, only filehandles and simple scalars are not interpolated (see perlop). So these: `@dir=<$hash{$key}>; @dir=<$array[0]>; @dir=<$object->method>; @dir=<${foo}>; # and even @dir=<$structure{'filehandle'}>;` [download] are interpreted as globs. Note that this is a caveat in the last case! Since you probably want the <> to do a readline in the last case, people really need to be aware that nested structures are always globbed. Only simple, straightforward variables like $foo result in readlines. Jeroen "We are not alone"(FZ)	[reply] [d/l]

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Re:{2} Adding Files in a directory to an array
by jeroenes (Priest) on Oct 09, 2001 at 15:10 UTC

exactly

While it is better (and I mean really, really better) to use the functional glob, you still can force perl to interpolate variables. Actually, only filehandles and simple scalars are not interpolated (see perlop). So these:

@dir=<$hash{$key}>;
@dir=<$array[0]>;
@dir=<$object->method>;
@dir=<${foo}>;
#  and even
@dir=<$structure{'filehandle'}>;
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