Monks, I run this program and it gave me an error message "Use of Uninitialize value in Join or String Line 25" Do you have any ideas on how to fix ths program?? Here is a sample data: 
028749|0011960|999-99-9999|GREER|SHELDON|5/23/2003|ABCDE|ABDEL-WAHAB, 
+MAY|ABDEL-WAHAB, MAY|ABCDE/PHYSICIAN/WEEKLY PROGRESS NOTE|A2901006|6/
+5/2003|H:\APPS\ABCDE\DB\ABCDE\13\00004FE5.008

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#! perl -w

use strict;
use File::Copy;

my $infile = "C:/radtrans/doclisth.chr";

my ( $yr, $mo, $dy ) = (localtime)[5,4,3];
my $outfile = sprintf( "C:/radtrans/%04d%02d%02d.txt",$yr+1900,$mo+1,$
+dy );

my $staticdir = "C:\\radtrans\\";

open IN, "<$infile" or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
open OUT,">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $!";

while (<IN>) {
    chomp;
    my @fields   = split /|/;

    my $newfile = $fields[0];
    my $path_str = $fields[12];

    do { warn "Empty field 13"; next } unless $path_str;
    my @path = split /\\/, $path_str;
    my $dir = join "\\", @path[ 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ];

    $newfile =~ s/$/.rtf/;

    my $out = join ('|', @fields[0..9]) . "@" . $staticdir . $newfile;

    print OUT "$out\n";     

    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 $file =~ m/\.rtf$/i;
 
        copy( "$dir\\$file", "C:\\temp\\$newfile" )
          or die "Failed to copy $file: $!\n";
    }
}

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In reply to Use of Uninitialize value in Join or String by Skyler99

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