Oh! Good to know, thanks so much. That'll be so useful for the future. And no, you're right, I don't want to push the $i-file repeatedly, that was a mistake.

Thank you so much!

There is something strange happening though, I think it's because there is something wrong in this bit

for ($i=1; $i<=3; $i++) {
  open $input1, '<', "$path\/File-$molec1-cluster$i.out" or die $!;
  push @ARGV, "$path\/File-$molec1-cluster$i.out";

  for ($j=2; $j<=3; $j++) {
  open $input2, '<', "$path\/File-$molec2-cluster$j.out" or die $!;

  push @ARGV, "$path\/File-$molec2-cluster$j.out";

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When I print the contents of the files, the result is completely chaotic. I would expect the printing to be sequential like so

1st print file molec1-$i=1

2nd print file molec1-$i=2

3rd print file molec1-$i=3

4th print file molec2-$j=2

5th print file molec2-$j=3

but in my case the end result is a combination of $i-file with only the second option of $j-file repeated ($j=3), while the $j=2 is completely ignored.

What i'm getting is:

1st print file molec1-$i=1

2nd print file molec2-$j=3

3rd print file molec1-$i=2

4th print file molec2-$j=3 (repeat)

5th print file molec1-$i=3

6th print file molec2-$j=3 (repeat)

I don't understand why this pattern appears...?

In reply to Re^2: trying to read files in @ARGV but getting GLOB error! :( by fasoli
in thread trying to read files in @ARGV but getting GLOB error! :( by fasoli

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