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DirHandle

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3)
Updated: perl 5.004, patch 04
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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 theopendir(), closedir(), readdir(), and rewinddir() functions.

The only objective benefit to using DirHandle is that it avoidsnamespace pollution by creating globs to hold directory handles.

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