in reply to How do I read all the file names of a directory into an array?

lucky for you.. perl has built in functions for this: 
my $directory="/home/myuser/mp3s";
opendir(DIR, $directory) or die "couldn't open $directory: $!\n";
my @files = readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;

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you can also use readdir in scalar context to just return the next item in the directory.
-brad..
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