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# opendir

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# opendir

Perl functions A-Z | Perl functions by category | The 'perlfunc' manpage

- opendir DIRHANDLE,EXPR

  Opens a directory named EXPR for processing by `readdir`, `telldir`, `seekdir`, `rewinddir`, and `closedir`. Returns true if successful. DIRHANDLE may be an expression whose value can be used as an indirect dirhandle, usually the real dirhandle name. If DIRHANDLE is an undefined scalar variable (or array or hash element), the variable is assigned a reference to a new anonymous dirhandle; that is, it's autovivified. DIRHANDLEs have their own namespace separate from FILEHANDLEs.

  See the example at `readdir`.