DirHandle(3pm) Perl Programmers Reference Guide DirHandle(3pm)
NAME
DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
SYNOPSIS
use DirHandle;
$d = DirHandle->new(".");
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.
perl v5.18.2 2013-11-04 DirHandle(3pm)
