Fellow monks. I am having a problem with the stat function returning an empty list. Basically i have a directory of files that i need to get data from. So the directory is called Language and has a bunch of text files called French.txt, Spanish.txt etc. Here is the code: 
opendir(DIR,$dir) or die "dead";
@textfiles = readdir DIR;
foreach(@textfiles){
@data = stat($_);
if(scalar(@data) == 0) { print "Has no items"; }
print "$_\n";
}

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It always prints the "Has no items" and then proceeds to print fhe file name like French.txt and Spanish.txt. Am i doing something wrong? I also tried looping through the data array and printing stuff but it ended up not printing anything

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