On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:34:41PM -0700, Paul wrote:
> You could say
>
> opendir DIR, $ARGV[0] or die $!;
>
> though that isn't recurseable. Try
What do you mean when you say it isn't recurseable?
> use FileHandle;
> my $tmpdir = new FileHandle;
> opendir $tempdir, $ARGV[0] or die "Couldn't open $ARGV[0]: $!";
>
> (FileHandle objects work for opendir, too, right?)
What, you didn't test the code before posting it? For shame! ;)
It does work, but it might impact readability. There's a DirHandle
module, as well as an IO::Dir module.
Michael
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