DirHandle(3) Perl Programmers Reference Guide DirHandle(3)NAMEDirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
SYNOPSIS
use DirHandle;
$d = new DirHandle ".";
if (defined $d) {
while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something($_); }
$d->rewind;
while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something_else($_); }
undef $d;
}
DESCRIPTION
The "DirHandle" method provide an alternative interface to
the opendir(), closedir(), readdir(), and rewinddir()
functions.
The only objective benefit to using "DirHandle" is that it
avoids namespace pollution by creating globs to hold
directory handles.
2001-02-22 perl v5.6.1 DirHandle(3)