Re: [Sheflug] Perl tips

[Dave Mitchell <nospam [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:52:42PM +0000, Steve Tickle wrote:
> Apologies for this since it's not strictly a Linux problem but I'm trying 
> to do what I hoped was the relatively simple task of listing the contents 
> of a directory in alphabetical order using a perl script.

    system("ls");

or

    print "$_\n" for sort <*>;

or

    opendir D, '.' or die "can't read directory '.': $!\n";
    print "$_\n" for sort readdir(D);
    closedir D;

or

    etc etc

> If one of you perl wizards is willing to help me, it might be better to 
> take it off list and I'll explain my problem and exactly what it is I'm 
> trying to do.


Feel free to reply to me in private.


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