When you're done with a directory, you need to close it with the closedir command: : closedir « File « Perl






  1. Perl
  2. File
  3. closedir

When you're done with a directory, you need to close it with the closedir command:

    

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$name = "c:\\";

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

$entry = readdir(DIR);

while ( defined($entry) ) {
    print "$entry\n";
    $entry = readdir(DIR);
}
closedir(DIR);








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