[PD] get filenames from directory

[Simon Iten]

what would be an appropriate way to get all filenames out of a directory in pd-vanilla? 

i have only seen very old posts about this, they all use pd-extended. is there any recent object/external that does this? 
it could be nice if openpanel could also open a directory and output all the filenames...

alternatively is there a way to just read all the files from a directory one after the other?

cheers