Hello Monks, I have coded this program in sections and it does work. Now I have to put it all together to make it work as one. Basically I'm reading a file, parse and insert it to another file. Then I read the text file and grab the directory path to search for Rich Text Format files within the directory. Since it is a file that contains many subdirectories and within them. There is Rich Text Format file that I need to get to copy them to another directory and subsequently rename them with a number and date that exist in the file. I also create a text file for each record I read with the parse file. I know this operation sounds crazy. However I have put it together and it is almost working. I could get the program to parse the file and pass PATHs to the other function to start grabbing the RTF files. But I'm stuck... I was wondering if you hav any suggestion in reference to the program functionality. Thanks 
#! perl -w

######################################################
# Program to automate document extraction 
######################################################

use strict;

use File::Copy;
use File::Spec::Functions qw(catfile);

####################
# Read Template File
####################

my $infile  = 'c:/doclist.chr';
my $outfile = 'c:/doclist.txt';
   
   
   open IN, "<$infile"  or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
   open OUT,">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $!";

   ##   print OUT join '|', split /,/ while <IN>;

   while(<IN>) {
   chomp;
   
   my @fields = split /,/;
   my $path_str = $fields[6];

   do { warn "Empty field 7"; next } unless $path_str;

   my @path = split /\\/, $path_str;
   
   # assuming you want to remove a few directories
   my $fixed_path = join "\\", @path[0,5,6];
      
   my $out = join '|', @fields[0..5], $fixed_path, "\n";

   print OUT $out; 
   
}
exit;
close IN;

###########################
# End of Read Template File
###########################

#############################################
# Find, Copy, and Rename File to MRN+Date.rtf
#############################################

  my $now = `date`;

foreach my $fetchdir ($fixed_path) {

  my $mrn = @fields[0];

opendir MYDIR, $fetchdir or die "Could not opendir $fetchdir: $!\n";
my @allfiles = grep { $_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..' } readdir MYDIR ;
closedir(MYDIR);

my @files    = grep { !-d } @allfiles ;
my @dirs     = grep {  -d } @allfiles ;

print @files." files and ".@dirs." directories in $fetchdir\n" ;
print map "$_\n", @allfiles;

my @select_files = grep /\.rtf\z/i, @files;

for my $file (@select_files) {
    copy catfile($fetchdir,$file), catfile("C:\\temp", $file);
}

my $newdir = 'C:\\temp';

opendir MYDIR, $newdir or die "Could not opendir $newdir: $!\n";
my @all_files = grep { $_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..' } readdir MYDIR ;
closedir(MYDIR);

my @change_files = grep { !-d } @all_files;
 
  foreach my $get_files (@change_files) {

       my $newfile = $get_files;

       $newfile =~ s/\$mrn.$now.rtf$/word1.rtf/;

  if (-e $newfile) {
       warn "can't rename $get_files to $newfile: $newfile exists\n";
    } elsif (rename "$newdir/$get_files", "$newdir/$newfile") {
      print "file was renamed to $newfile\n"
    } else {
      warn "rename $get_files to $newfile failed: $!\n";
    }
 }
}
close OUT;

####################################
# End of Find, Copy, and Rename File 
####################################

###############################
# Create Text File per each MRN 
###############################

foreach my $text_file (@fields[0]) {

      if ($mrn = @fields[0])
       {

         my $newpatientrec = $newfile;

         open NEWPATIENT,">$newfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $
+!";            

         close NEWPATIENT;
       }

}

#########################
# End of Create Text File
#########################

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