redhat man page for dirhandle

DirHandle(3pm)						 Perl Programmers Reference Guide					    DirHandle(3pm)

NAME
       DirHandle - 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.

NOTES
       o   On Mac OS (Classic), the path separator is ':', not '/', and the current directory is denoted as ':', not '.'. You should be careful
	   about specifying relative pathnames. While a full path always begins with a volume name, a relative pathname should always begin with a
	   ':'.  If specifying a volume name only, a trailing ':' is required.

perl v5.8.0							    2002-06-01							    DirHandle(3pm)