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```
my $dir_path="\Incoming\Temp";
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```
This is not doing what you think. The backslash has a special meaning in double quotes. Fortunately, you can use a normal slash /.
```
opendir (Incoming\Temp, $tmp_dir) or die $!;
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```
Where is $tmp_dir coming from? Do you mean $dir_path? Moreover, you cannot use a non-alphanumeric character in a dirhandle name. Remove the backslash. Even better - use a lexical dirhandle:
```
opendir my $DIR, $dir_path or die $!;
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```
```
open (MYFILE, '>>vehicles.txt');
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```
Not really an error, but can be improved: use a lexical filehandle, 3-argument version of open, and test for failure:
```
open my $OUT, '>>', 'vehicles.txt' or die $!;
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```
Also note that $file_content is empty and undeclared. You probably want to use it inside the while loop to populate the output file:
```
while (my $filename = readdir $DIR) {
    open my $FILE, '<', "$dir_path/$filename" or die $!;
    while (my $content = <$FILE>) {
        print $OUT $content;
    }
}
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```
BTW, have you noticed the directory path must be prefixed to the filename?
```
CLOSEDIR;
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```
Perl is case sensitive. The function is in lowercase: closedir. Also, give it an argument.

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In reply to Re^3: Copy rows of file to new document by choroba
in thread Copy rows of file to new document by phineas629

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