simple perl question

[CTho9305]

how do I loop over every file in the directory? I want to create a nice-looking listing.
pseudo-code:

foreach file in the directory
{
make it pretty
}

I dont have a perl book to look through
thanks

 

[stndn]

for perl references, see here
you don't have a perl book? are you sure you don't have a perl book?

anyways, here's how you do it:

opendir (SOME_VAR, "/full/path/to/the/directory");
# you may want to add some check here, to make sure the directory is opened correctly

foreach (readdir SOME_VAR) {
...# this is optional, if you want to skip some files (eg: in unix, if you want to skip . and ..)
...next if ($_ eq "." || $_ eq "..");

...# this display the output ... sure, it's not pretty, but whatever
...printf "filename is $_\n";
}

close SOME_VAR; # when you are done with the directory


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edit: forgot to open directory before reading it ...

 

[CTho9305]

thanks