[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hi to All,
> I' d like to know if it' s possible to count the exact number of files
> inside a certain directory, using a way better than this:
> 
> use CGI;
> 
> my $q = new CGI;
> my $dir = 'C:\...\temp';
> my $num_files = -1;
> 
> print $q->header("text/html");
> 
> local *DIR;
> opendir (DIR, $dir);
> $num = $num_files++ while readdir (DIR);
> closedir DIR;
> print $num;


does glob() work on windoze?  ie.-

my @files = glob('c:\...\temp\*.*');
print "number of files is ", scalar(@files), "\n";

for more info:  perldoc -f glob


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