use DirHandle; $d = new DirHandle "."; if (defined $d) { while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something($_); } $d->rewind; while (defined($_ = $d->read)) { something_else($_); } undef $d; }
opendir(),
closedir(),
readdir(),
and
rewinddir()
functions.
The only objective benefit to using DirHandle is that it avoids namespace pollution by creating globs to hold directory handles.