How do I...

Edge posted this at 00:03 — 1st March 2001.

Joined: Mar 2000

Hey!

I need a little help. How do get the name of every file in a directory? They're all text files. So, could I use something like "*.txt"?

Thanks!

--Edge

japhy posted this at 00:32 — 1st March 2001.

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Joined: Dec 1999

Since you're using Perl, you could use a very-Perl approach:

opendir DIR, $path or die "can't read $path: $!";
@text = map "$path/$_", grep /\.txt$/, readdir DIR;
closedir DIR;

Or you could take the let-the-OS-do-it approach:

@text = glob "$path/*.txt";