


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


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.



































1996-08-19                 perl v5.6.0                          1


