Further to davido's ++post: A more Perlish way to write this kind of loop (and the subsequent print loop) might be (using several other suggestions from this thread):

my @AoA;
for my $filename (@ARGV){
    open my $filehandle, '<', $filename or die "opening '$filename': $
+!";
    my (undef, @tmp) = <$filehandle>;
    push @AoA, \@tmp;
    close $filehandle;
    }

foreach my $aref (@AoA){
    print "\t [ @$aref ],\n";
    }
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The for-loop iterates over the @ARGV array and that's that; you don't have to worry about managing $counter or depleting @ARGV, and the $filename variable is entirely local to the scope of the for-loop (as is $aref in the following print loop), and thus cannot conflict with the same variable name in an enclosing scope (but see below!).

Update:

... thus cannot conflict with the same variable name in an enclosing scope.

This statement is a bit misleading. A lexical for-loop iteration variable is completely localized within the scope of the loop regardless of whether or not a new lexical is declared for this purpose:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $x = 'eks';
 print qq{before loop: $x};
 ;;
 for my $x (1, 2, 3) {
   print qq{in loop: $x};
   }
 ;;
 print qq{after loop: $x};
"
before loop: eks
in loop: 1
in loop: 2
in loop: 3
after loop: eks

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $x = 'eks';
 print qq{before loop: $x};
 ;;
 for $x (1, 2, 3) {
   print qq{in loop: $x};
   }
 ;;
 print qq{after loop: $x};
"
before loop: eks
in loop: 1
in loop: 2
in loop: 3
after loop: eks
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Thus, the only "conflict" that can arise is due to confusion in the mind of the programmer. :)

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