Dear Monks, I'm trying to compiled the code but it gave me an error. I put a print statement before the next statements so I could get an accurate result on what the script is doing. This is the error : 

dir: C:\Apps\Impac\Db\Escribe\07\00002A0F.002 file: newfile:270917
dir: C:\Apps\Impac\Db\Escribe\07\00002A0F.002 file:STATUS.TXT newfile:
270917
dir: C:\Apps\Impac\Db\Escribe\07\00002A0F.002 file:WORD1.RTF newfile:2
70917
Failed to copy Word1.rtf: No such file or directory

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I'm trying to copy the RTF file and not the TEXT . I cannot tell if the script is getting mix up with trying to rename the RTF and TEXT. Could you take a look at the code and let me know if I need to change anything to make it work. Thanks in advance 

#! perl -w

use strict;
use File::Copy;

my $infile = "c:/zip files misc/doclisth.chr";
open IN, "<$infile" or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
while (<IN>) {
    chomp;
    my @fields   = split /,/;

    my $newfile = $fields[0];
    my $path_str = $fields[13];

    do { warn "Empty field 14"; next } unless $path_str;
    my @path = split /\\/, $path_str;
    my $dir = join "\\", @path[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ];

    process_dir($dir,$newfile);
}
close IN;

sub process_dir {

    my ($dir, $newfile) = @_;

    do { warn "$dir does not exist!\n"; return } unless -e $dir;
    opendir DIR, $dir or do { warn "Could not open $dir $!\n" ; return
};
    while ( my $file = readdir DIR ) {

        print "dir: $dir file:$file newfile:$newfile\n";
        #before the next unless statements.

        next unless -f "$dir\\$file";
        next unless $file =~ m/\.rtf$/;


        copy( "$dir\\$file", "C:\\testfiles\\$newfile" )
          or die "Failed to copy $file: $!\n";

    }
}

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In reply to Use file variables to copy and rename file. by Skyler99

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