1DirHandle(3pm)         Perl Programmers Reference Guide         DirHandle(3pm)
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NAME

6       DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles
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SYNOPSIS

9           use DirHandle;
10           $d = new DirHandle ".";
11           if (defined $d) {
12               while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something($_); }
13               $d->rewind;
14               while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something_else($_); }
15               undef $d;
16           }
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DESCRIPTION

19       The "DirHandle" method provide an alternative interface to the
20       opendir(), closedir(), readdir(), and rewinddir() functions.
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22       The only objective benefit to using "DirHandle" is that it avoids
23       namespace pollution by creating globs to hold directory handles.
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NOTES

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