On Oct 18, 4:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chas. Owens) wrote:
> Also, don't use
> dirhandles if you are just going to use readdir in list context.
> dirhandles are for iterative reading.  Use a glob to get a list:

First time I've ever heard that piece of advice.  Can't understand why
you'd give it.  Especially since you seem to give the impression that

open $dh, 'dir/';
@files = readdir $dh;

and

@files = <dir/*>;

give the same result.  They don't.

Paul Lalli


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