On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:50 AM, sivasakthi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > How to form array by using the files available in particular directory ? snip
my @list_of_files = </tmp/*>; However, this is not a good idea. Do you know how many files are in that directory? If it is an extraordinarily large directory with large file names you could eat up a lot of memory. Most of the time you want to process each file in a directory by itself, so you don't need an array, just a way to iterated over the items in the directory. Perl provides the opendir*, readdir**, closedir*** functions to let you do this. * http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/opendir.html ** http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/readdir.html *** http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/closedir.html -- Chas. Owens wonkden.net The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
