trying to understand one line of code 1

[jcarrott]

I need to support this code and I am not sure what it is doing.

next if $file =~ /^\.{1,2}$/;

an example of a file name is
Invoice20100224-1060415.pdf

 

[Zhris]

In the directory/folder being looped through, that line is saying to go to skip the current loop iteration if $file is either '.' or '..' (which refer to the current and upper working directories).

Chris