perl

[Ben Coffman]

When designing a <perl> script to go through a directory tree I ran into a 
problem.  The script crawls through the tree fine ONLY IF when I read all 
the contents of a folder into an array with the readdir command the folders 
are listed before the files.  If by chance a file is tested to see if it is 
a directory then the next element it reads from the array is a directory, 
for some reason it can't recognize that as a directory...or a file for that 
matter.  Below is an example of what the output is.  The directory it is in 
is 'e.'

"hi" is a file name
"no" is a file name
"abc" is a directory

What it should do is check and see that hi is not a directory and skip it 
same with no, then with abc it should jump in and read the contents of that 
folder.  But as you can see after it reads hi it cannot reconize anything 
else.  Any suggestons would be great!

Array name 0 is : .
Array name 1 is : ..
Array name 2 is : hi
Array name 3 is : no
Array name 4 is : abc
Array name 5 is :
the name is: hi
file output: hi:                empty file
workdir2: e
startdir2: /home/coffmanb/stuff/a/b
the name is: no
file output: no:                cannot open: No such file or directory
workdir2: e
startdir2: /home/coffmanb/stuff/a/b
the name is: abc
file output: abc:               cannot open: No such file or directory
workdir2: e

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