Hi Monks

I am pretty new to Perl. I have a script which is supposed to open a directory, and then open each file within the directory and parse it into an array using a sub.

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

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

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

sub process_file
{
    my $line = @_;
    my @array = split(/ /, $line);
    print "$#array\n";
}

closedir (DIR);

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However I am not sure that my sub is receiving the text files correctly. I think it bombs out at the

my $line = @_;

line. Can anyone help me with receiving the text file in the sub please?

In reply to Open a directory and recursively process files by Dr Manhattan

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