I need to search for files in a directory that begin with a particular pattern, say "abc". I also need to eliminate all the files in the result that end with ".xh". I am not sure how to go about do...

See also: Where in the documentation does it say that while tests readdir for definedness?. (Not a duplicate; just closely related.) Many people treat the loop below as idiomatic: while (define...

When I read a directory in Perl with opendir, readdir, and closedir, the readdir function doesn't seem to read the files in any specific order (that I can tell). I am reading a directory that has ...