PERL Beginners - Reading multiple files

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Reading multiple files

hshirani@gmail.com

2006-09-09, 3:57 am

Hi,

I want to read all the files within a directory assuming that I do not
know the name of the files beforehand. Is there any way to do it ?

Thanks.

Paul Lalli

2006-09-09, 3:57 am

hshirani@gmail.com wrote:
> I want to read all the files within a directory assuming that I do not
> know the name of the files beforehand. Is there any way to do it ?

Yes.

Open the directory, read the list of files. For each file read, open
that file and read it.

perldoc -f opendir
perldoc -f readdir

You will also want to make sure the directory entry is actually a file.

perldoc -f -X

Paul Lalli

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