Just specify the files as arguments. The file names will be available in the @ARGV array.

If you want to input data from those files, you can do several things, depending on how you need to use the data from them:

• If you need to process their data sequentially, you could simply use the <> "magic" construct, which will read data from all the files given as arguments (or from standard input if no files are given). It will appear as if all the files have been concatenated. If you need to differentiate between the different files, you could use eof as described in its documentation, to test at each iteration if it's the end of the current file.
• If you need to get data simultaneously from different files, you can explicitly open them by accessing the @ARGV array.

--ZZamboni

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