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Reading a directory all at once with an array: Use an array with the readdir command, instead of a scalar variable

     

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$name = "c:\\";

opendir(DIR, $name)   or die "Can't open $name due to $!";

@entries = readdir(DIR);

closedir(DIR);

# Sort results.
@sorted = sort(@entries);

foreach $entry (@sorted) {
    print "$entry\n";
}








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