You're welcome!

Here's another tip: although you can of course use opendir and grep to get your list of files, Perl also has a built-in function called glob for filename expansions. Using that, the code that my anonymous brother posted in Re: dbf_dump to apply to multiple files in a directory simplifies to: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use IPC::System::Simple qw/system/; # recommended but optional

foreach my $file (glob "*.dbf") {
    system(qq{dbf_dump --fs "," "$file" > "$file.csv"}) == 0
        or die "system() failed (\$?=$?)";
}

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I've also replaced $_ with $file here -- $_ is not otherwise used and never assigned any value --, and put quotes around the CSV file's name to avoid problems with filenames that contain spaces.

In reply to Re^3: dbf_dump to apply to multiple files in a directory by AppleFritter
in thread dbf_dump to apply to multiple files in a directory by solanum

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