Odd result from readdir()

I am trying to read the filenames in a directory using readdir(). There are two files and I cloned the example in the opendir() documentation so the problem is probably not being caused by my coding: My script running from the command line: $indir = "/usr/shipresp/"; $outdir = "/usr/shipresp/"; if (is_dir($indir)) { if ($dh = opendir($indir)) { while ($filename = (readdir($dh) !== false)) { echo "\nfound filename " . $filename; } } } ?> The result is not a list of file names: found filename 1 found filename 1 found filename 1 found filename 1 Note the directory only has two files so I am assuming files 3 and 4 are this directory and its parent ---> ie ./ and ../ (?). I have the same problem with fgets($file); docs say it returns a string and all I get is "1". I resolved that problem by using fgetcsv($file,,"\t") since the lines are actually a csv file anyway, but my question is why I don't get the expected results. Been playing with this off and on for several days now and the directory list is critical to what I am doing. Thanks in advance. John ======