in reply to Using perl to extract data from multiple .txt files

use strict; opendir(INDIR,"/path/to/directory/with/files") or die $!; while (my $fname = readdir(INDIR)){ next unless $fname =~ m@\.txt$@; open FIN," < $fname" or die "$fname: $!"; my @stuff=<FIN>; close FIN; #process lines.... }
There's another way of doing it.


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