The closedir function closes the directory that was opened by the opendir function. : closedir « File « Perl






  1. Perl
  2. File
  3. closedir

The closedir function closes the directory that was opened by the opendir function.

    

#Format

#closedir (DIRHANDLE);
#closedir DIRHANDLE;


opendir(DIR, "..") || die "Can't open: $!\n";
@parentfiles=readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
foreach $file ( @parentfiles ){ 
   print "$file\n";
}








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