Re: Directory Listing Question

[Bob McElrath]

Rengasamy, Samy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I am trying to read a directory listing with the following line of code,
> but I just get the first file listed.
> 
> @fileList = <$dirName/*> || die "Read Directory Listing of $dirName Failed";

This doesn't work like open(), the LHS of your || is not a boolean
value on success.  Try this:
    @filelist = <$dirName/*>;
    if($!) { die "Read Directory Listing of $dirName Failed"; }

Cheers,
-- Bob

Bob McElrath ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics

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