Greetings Ken, and thanks for the reply.
This looks like a complete solution!
Given that all of the files end in .html, and begin with abc
I should be able to simply read in the entire directory. 
opendir(DIR, $dirname) or die "can't opendir $dirname: $!";
while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {
# use your suggestion on "$dirname/$file"
}
closedir(DIR);

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I'm still sorting it all out. But wanted to take the time to thank you
for your help.

Thanks again!

--chris

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use perl::always;
my $perl_version = "5.12.4";
print $perl_version;

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