DirHandle(3) DirHandle(3)
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.
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