DirHandle (3)

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NAME

DirHandle - supply object methods for directory handles

SYNOPSIS

    use DirHandle;
    $d = DirHandle->new(".");
    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.