Daniel Kurtz wrote:
Bob Showalter wrote:
Please tell me you're kidding.
Why? It works. The question asked how you can do it, not the BEST way
to do it. And after a week of Perling, this was the one way I knew.
Now I know two ways. <g>
OK, you weren't kidding. Since you're new to Perl, you get a free pass :~)
Seriously, though, not all of us run Perl on Windows. Your approach is
Windows-specific. In addition, the "dir" command outputs a bunch of other
stuff besides the file name, so you'd have to do some parsing to get the
file names.
Either a glob approach or an opendir/readdir approach is simpler and more
portable if one just needs a list of file names. If more details are needed,
the stat() function (or related operators) can be applied to the resulting
list.
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