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);

In reply to Re^2: Open a directory and recursively process files by Dr Manhattan
in thread Open a directory and recursively process files by Dr Manhattan

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