I am trying a simple code of reading dir content and printing it on cmd prompt. But its not working. What can be problem in here ? 
opendir (dir, "C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Staples files");
@dir_content = readdir(dir);
closedir(dir);

for $d(@dir_content){
    print "$d ";
}

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This code does not give any error nor does it print output

I have tried it in different ways as follows 
opendir dir, "C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\Staples files\";
my @files = readdir(dir);
closedir(dir);

foreach $file(@files){
    print "$file \n";
}
print $#files ;

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I am getting following errors when I run this code

C:\Users\Admin>perl C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\perl_programs\printDir.pl Scalar found where operator expected at C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\perl_programs\pri ntDir.pl line 6, near "print "$file" (Might be a runaway multi-line "" string starting on line 1) (Do you need to predeclare print?) Backslash found where operator expected at C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\perl_programs\ printDir.pl line 6, near "$file \" (Missing operator before \?) String found where operator expected at C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\perl_programs\pri ntDir.pl line 6, at end of line (Missing semicolon on previous line?) syntax error at C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\perl_programs\printDir.pl line 6, near "p rint "$file " Can't find string terminator '"' anywhere before EOF at C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\p erl_programs\printDir.pl line 6. 
 open file, "< C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\staples\readfile.txt";
@file_content = <file>;
for $f (@file_content){
    print "$f \n";
}

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This code does not give anu errors. but does not print content of files either.

In reply to Reading DIR content and printing it by manishrathi

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