Re: STDIN help for a new Perl coder

[linuxer]

Welcome here and to Perl.

If you read User input like that, you must know, that the linebreak will also be stored in your variable. So you must remove it; see chomp for details.

chomp( my $dir = <STDIN> );

Each statement should be completed with a ';', your chdir misses one.

You should check if chdir was successful and do something if it wasn't ($! contains the system's error message).

chdir( $dir ) or die "$dir: $!\n";

If you already changed into $dir, you must not specify it again in the glob pattern.

As you are using strict, you need to declare each new variable. You did it right with $dir, but not with @files.

[perlJourney]

Thank you for the advice... I forgot about declaring the @files but will do so. I also was not aware of the linebreak being stored... I did not know Perl did this. I will look into the chomp command.

I will also add the system error message to the chdir line to give the message like you suggest.