use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; foreach my $file (glob("*.ATT")) { open(my $fh, '<', $file) or die "$file: $!"; my %params = map { chomp($_); my ($key, $value) = split(/=/, $_); $value="" unless(defined($value)); ($key, $value) } <$fh>; close($fh); next if( $params{'page_id'} =~ m/(^\s*$|\?)/ or $params{'site_code'} =~ m/(^\s*$|\?)/ or $params{'subject_id'} =~ m/(^\s*$|\?)/ ); $params{'page_description'} .= "some text - $params{'page_id'}"; print Dumper(\%params); }