At 12:42 PM 08-05-01 -0400, Carl Rogers wrote:
>Sorry if this is a dumb question.. (I know, there is no such thing as a
>dumb question- only questions asked by dumb people:)
>
>I used the opendir() function in my Perl script to point to a folder with
>200+ text files for the purpose of extractin
Carl Rogers writes ..
>I used the opendir() function in my Perl script to point to a folder
>with 200+ text files for the purpose of extracting data from each file.
>
>If I run the script with opendir/readdir pointing to a directory on a
>shared drive, I'll get to a point where Perl tells me "Can
Carl,
Have you tried to use the globbing function rather than readdir?
my $file;
while(<*.txt>){
$file=$_; # not strictly needed, I know, but makes it clear
open(F,$file) || die "with a nice error message\n$!\n";
while(){
# do something useful with the file
}
