Hi blue cowdawg

I tried your sub, but it still does not work. ".:Permission denied at project6.pl line 16." Which is    open FIN,"< $fname" or die "$fname:$!"; Any idea why this happens?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strict;
my $dir = 'C:\Users\Zandre Botha\Desktop\Text Files';

opendir (DIR, $dir) or die "cannot opendir $dir"; 

foreach my $file (readdir(DIR)) 
{ 
    &process_file ($file); 
}

sub process_file
{
    my $fname=join("/",@_);
   
   open FIN,"< $fname" or die "$fname:$!";
   my @lines=<FIN>;
   chomp @lines;
   close FIN;
   my $count=0;
   foreach my $line(@lines)
   {
       map { $count++ } split (/[\s\t\n]+/,$line);
   } 
   
   printf "There are %d words in %s\n",$count,$fname;
}

closedir (DIR);
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I tried your sub, but it still does not work. ".:Permission denied at project6.pl line 16." Which is open FIN,"< $fname" or die "$fname:$!"; Any idea why this happens?

If you read the diagnostic carefully you'll notice it complains about the filename "." which is actually your current working directory. You forgot the line

next if ($file eq '.') || ( $file eq '..');
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just prior to the call to the sub. I think I mentioned that a few answers ago...

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Any idea why this happens?

Because you don't have permission -- ask the computer why

stat, file, ls

or die Fudge( "q{$file}:" );
sub Fudge {
    use Errno();
    join qq/\n/,
      "Error @_",
      map { "  $_" } int( $! ) . q/ / . $!,
      int( $^E ) . q/ / . $^E,
      grep( { $!{$_} } keys %! ),
      q/ /;
}
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You failed to include a couple of lines of code you were given the last time you asked this question. Guess which ones:Re^2: Open a folder