hello, I'm new to Perl! I'd like to write a script that obtains a list of files from the command line, read the files, and write their content to different output files. Here's my code: 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

my $output = "output.txt";
open (WRITE, ">$output") || die $!;

while (<>){
    chomp $_;
    print WRITE "$_\n";
}
print "done\n";

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How can I automatically create as much output files as needed without assigning them by myself, so that it works with any number of input files? Thanks in advance!

In reply to reading files to different output files. by ic23oluk

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