Re: [MacPerl] listing directory contents

[Paul McCann]

Hi Gene,
        you wrote...

> I keep getting the sub ErrorMessage text and don't understand why.
> Isn't the "." supposed to be for the working directory? ie where the
> script resides?

That's a unix-specific way of specifying the current directory. 
In pre-Mac OS X perl you'll need to use the colon-based directory
specifications. 

opendir(DIR,"paolo:Documents") or die "Could not open: $!";

or for the current directory:

opendir(DIR,":") or die "nup: $!";

Cheers,
Paul