Hello all, am a novice to perl programming and need some (a lot?) of assistance. Scenario is as follows. I have about 1000 DBF files that need to be converted to CSV files. I understand that I can use dbf_dump to accomplish this, however, I am having issues with the coding. I have installed the xbase component and have tested it on a couple of files and that works like a charm. I need help with the coding when it comes to arrays. she here goes the code I do have *please be gentle with the remarks :) * 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

opendir(DIR, ".");
@files = grep(/\.dbf$/,readdir(DIR));
closedir(DIR);

foreach $file (@files)     {

                         dbf_dump --fs "," "$file" > $_.csv;

                        }

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I get the following error when the script gets checked bareword found where operator expected, near "--fs" Help!

In reply to dbf_dump to apply to multiple files in a directory by solanum

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