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Re: Re: How do I determine whether a folder is empty?

by crouchingpenguin (Priest)
on May 21, 2003 at 16:28 UTC ( [id://259783]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: How do I determine whether a folder is empty?
in thread How do I determine whether a folder is empty?

sorry, couldn't resist =]

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

sub isEmpty {
  opendir(DIR,shift) or die $!;
  my @files = grep { !m/\A\.{1,2}\Z/} readdir(DIR);
  closedir(DIR);
  @files ? 0 : 1;
}

print isEmpty('./dir') ? "empty\n" : "not empty\n";

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