[HRPM] line noise

[chicks at chicks.net]

On Sun, 28 May 2000, Troy E. Webster wrote:
> local(@allfiles) = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir(THISDIR);

! means not
/   / contains a regular expression
^ ties it to the beginning of the line
$ ties it to the end of the line
\. means a real period (. alone means any character)
? means 0 or 1

So what it gives you is the list of files from the directory and it skips
the '.' and '..' directories.

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