I can't figure out why my directory listing with an if statement is not working the way I would expect. I want to exclude . and .. from showing up in the list so I did the following:
my $dirname = '.';
opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die "can't opendir $dirname: $!";
while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {
    if ($file ne '.' || $file ne '..'){print "$file\n";}
}
closedir(DIR);

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This prints out a complete list including . and .. I then tried the following to produce only a . and .. listing:
my $dirname = '.';
opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die "can't opendir $dirname: $!";
while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {
    if ($file eq '.' || $file eq '..'){print "$file\n";}
}
closedir(DIR);

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And it works only printing the following:
.
..

Why does it work one way and not the other?

B.T.W. I know that this works great:
opendir (DIR, ".") or die "$!";
@dir = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir DIR; closedir DIR;

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Sparky
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In reply to If statements with . and .. filehandles. by sparkyichi

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