Ok, lets try this again. Sorry about the formating of the last message.

I am new at perl and am trying to get a handle on how the basics work.

All I am trying to do is search a directory in windows and return wether the items in it are files or directories.

What I have so far is this...
if I have the prompt at C: and I run the lines of code below only a couple of the directories are found. If I then change to D: in the prompt and run it again I get what I expect. For what reason does it do this. I have seen code that works but for my own understanding I would like to know what is going wrong here. 

opendir dirs2, "D:/" or die "Could not open directory: $!";

    while ($_ = (readdir dirs2)) 
    {
        if (-d $_)
        {
            print "Directory: $_\n";    
        }
    }

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Thanks
Paul Neale

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