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copied!<pre><code>opendir(D, "/path/to/directory") || die "Can't open directory: $!\n"; while (my $f = readdir(D)) { print "\$f = $f\n"; } closedir(D); </code></pre> <p>EDIT: Oh, sorry, missed the "into an array" part:</p> <pre><code>my $d = shift; opendir(D, "$d") || die "Can't open directory $d: $!\n"; my @list = readdir(D); closedir(D); foreach my $f (@list) { print "\$f = $f\n"; } </code></pre> <p>EDIT2: Most of the other answers are valid, but I wanted to comment on <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22566/how-do-i-read-in-the-contents-of-a-directory-in-perl#24436">this answer</a> specifically, in which this solution is offered:</p> <pre><code>opendir(DIR, $somedir) || die "Can't open directory $somedir: $!"; @dots = grep { (!/^\./) && -f "$somedir/$_" } readdir(DIR); closedir DIR; </code></pre> <p>First, to document what it's doing since the poster didn't: it's passing the returned list from <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/readdir.html" rel="noreferrer">readdir()</a> through a <a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/grep.html" rel="noreferrer">grep()</a> that only returns those values that are files (as opposed to directories, devices, named pipes, etc.) and that do not begin with a dot (which makes the list name <code>@dots</code> misleading, but that's due to the change he made when copying it over from the readdir() documentation). Since it limits the contents of the directory it returns, I don't think it's technically a correct answer to this question, but it illustrates a common idiom used to filter filenames in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl" rel="noreferrer">Perl</a>, and I thought it would be valuable to document. Another example seen a lot is:</p> <pre><code>@list = grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir(D); </code></pre> <p>This snippet reads all contents from the directory handle D <strong>except</strong> '.' and '..', since those are very rarely desired to be used in the listing.</p>

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