If you're trying to write cross-platform code you may want to keep something else in mind - another thing that isn't absolutely gauranteed is the characters the OS uses to represent the current and the parent directories.

I use File::Spec::Functions's no_upwards() function to check and see if the filename is the current working or parent directory or not:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

use strict;
use File::Spec::Functions qw(catdir rootdir no_upwards);

use constant START_DIR => catdir(rootdir, qw(users foo));

opendir DIR, START_DIR
  or die 'Could not open directory ', START_DIR, ": $!";

while( defined(my $file = readdir DIR) ) {
  next unless no_upwards($file);
  print "$file\n";

  #...do something with $file
}

closedir DIR;

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In reply to (dkubb) Re: (2) Is readdir ever deterministic? by dkubb
in thread Is readdir ever deterministic? by grinder

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