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Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 3:33 AM
Subject: Looping through readdir()
> Hello, All:
>
> When using...
>
> while ($x = readdir(DH)) {
> # What came before $x?
> # What will come after $x?
> }
>
> How can I look at the next item in the directory?
If you want to move around in the list, you should read all the files into
an array:
my @files = readdir(DH);
Then you can examine all of them any way you want to.
See also 'perldoc -f glob' as an alternative to using opendir/readdir
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