Engineering Projects/Attendance/perl/Directory
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Listing the files in a directory is most easily done using a glob:
@files = <*>; foreach $file (@files) { print "$file\n"; } $pause = <>;
The * in <*> represents the current directory. The output on a windows machine looks like this:
There problems with this are:
- can not tell file from directory explicitly
- can not tell the type of file explicitly because file names can have spaces in them
- no size information
- no date information
Need to make these assumptions:
- all files will have an extension which is after the period
- names with out extensions are folders
Need to define a directory structure that is going to need to be crawled through looking for students.