From: Bob Showalter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> OK, you weren't kidding. Since you're new to Perl, you get a free pass :~) <<< I appreciate the indulgence <g>. >>> Seriously, though, not all of us run Perl on Windows. Your approach is Windows-specific. <<< True, I hadn't thought of that. I'm primarily a Visual Studio person, and the biggest point of platform variation we need to worry about in our discussion forums is usually "Are you using Service Pack 4 or Service Pack 5?" >>> 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. <<< Actually, use the /b switch and you do get just the file names. I agree now that Perl gives you easier ways to do it (actually, I pretty much assumed that was the case all along, I just hadn't had time yet to find out what those other 'proper' ways were.) daniel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
