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.