Reading from dirs?

[Guest_imported]

How do i read the file names from a directory? how do iopen it?

open (MYDIR, "usr/local/bin/mydir&quot || die "Failed to open dir $!"; ?

would this leave me with <MYDIR> containing all the file names in that directory?

could i then use

for($i; <MYDIR>; $i++)
{
$files[$i] = split (/.dat/, $_);
}

to put them into an array removing the .dat extentions?

thanks

 

[vcherubini]

You would not use the open() function, but rather the opendir() function.

Like so:

[tt]
opendir(DIR,&quot;usr/local/bin/mydir&quot || die(&quot;failed to open dir: $!&quot;
while($var = readdir(DIR)) {
$var = split (/.dat/, $var);
}
closedir(DIR);
[/tt]

Hope this helps.

-Vic

vic cherubini
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[MikeLacey]

easier to use the builtin globbing, like this:

while(<*>){
[tab]print;
} Mike
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[Guest_imported]

vcherubini thank you thank you thank you!!!!!
i've been trying to do this for ages!
Greatly appricated!
Sib