Is it possible to get this file count ($ct) to give me the total count after it does the counter in the for loop on the top of a page?? All my scripts I have to put the total count after the for loop at the bottom of page but was wondering if I can "call" the total $ct and put it at the top of the page: Here is my current output:

Total Count = 0  #I want the total count of 5 here.
.
..
file1
file2
file3

Total count = 5  #I want this total count up on the top of output inst
+ead of
here.

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The script: 
use strict;

my $newfile = "./";

opendir(DIR,$newfile);
my @files = readdir(DIR);
close(DIR);
my $ct = 0;
chdir ($newfile) || die "Could not change to $newfile directory\n$!\n"
+;
print "Total count = $ct\n\n";
for(@files) 
{
  print "$_\n";
  $ct++
}    
print "\nTotal count = $ct\n";

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