Engineering Projects/Attendance/perl/Directory

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.