#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Data::Dumper; my @files = glob('data/*'); my %filedata; for my $file (@files) { open my $fh, "<$file" or die "Ack, Can't open $file"; chomp( my @data = <$fh> ); close $fh; $filedata{$file} = \@data; } print Dumper(\%filedata);