I need some advice/help on getting this to work. I'm taking an on-line Perl Training Course and I am stumped on getting my code to work. Please be kind in your responses as I'm new to Perl. I am trying to open a path to a folder on one of my drives and then read the files to get the information and print a statement out from those files. I was instructed to use the <> diamond operator to read the directory and to also read the files. I have setup hashes to set the key and values up or at least that's what I thought I was doing. I did write a script that used opendir to get to the files and print them out. The opendir has been the only thing that worked so far. However, I'm having a hard time creating/reading the files to do something with and create the $hash{$key} = $values. But, is there a way to use <> to open the directory path and then use the <> to read the files and do something with the information. Any help on this would greatly appreciated, as I know there are some Perl Guru's on here. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;


my $filename;
my $FH;
my %length;
my %songs;

opendir DH, "./software/Perl2/Music" or die "Could not open directory!
+";
#open(my $file1, "<", "The Bravery-Believe.txt") or die "Could not ope
+n file $!";
while($filename = readdir(DH)){

  if ($filename =~ /.txt/){
        chomp $filename;
        my ($artist, $song_title) = split '-', $filename, 3;
        $length{$artist}{$artist} = $artist;
        $length{$artist}{$song_title} = $song_title;
        #print $artist,"\n";
        #print $song_title,"\n";
    }
    #elsif ($filename =~ /.txt/){
    #open FH, "<", $filename or die "Could not open file '$filename' $
+!";
     
 }

    

print Dumper %songs;

print Dumper %length;


foreach my $artist ( sort keys %length )
{
    
        print "$artist is the name of the Artist\n";
        
}

foreach my $album ( sort keys %length )
{
        print "$album is this now\n";
}

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Thanks, Brandon

In reply to I need help with opening a directory and reading files in that directory. by brawal128

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