Hello,

I'm very novice, and have tried my hand at this problem:

I have 1000s of PDFs named arbitrarily and non-uniformly by a scanning vendor (nothing at all like the sample here). I need to rename them all with unique and uniform filenames.

I have the paths to all the files, and the metadata needed to uniquely name them. I thought I could create a Perl script that would use an array with the original filepath/name and an array with the new filepath/name to rename.

Thus far I have this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;

use File::Copy;

# Set up arrays with original name and new name with unique ISBN
my @IDI_name = ('I:\Production\TEST\P001.txt', 'I:\Production\TEST\P00
+2.txt'); 
my @PLL_name = ('I:\Production\TEST\ISBN_Text.txt', 'I:\Production\TES
+T\ISBN2_Text.txt'); 

# Walk through array and copy with new filename
foreach my $IDI_name (@IDI_name) {
    copy("$IDI_name", "$PLL_name");
}

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The new name is giving me an explicit package name error, but I can figure out how to declare that variable.

So, is my approach entirely wrong?

How do I declare that variable?

In reply to Renaming multiple files with unique identifiers by reedkm

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