Almost-newbie question: I'm trying to parse a directory, with many subdirectories, which contain files with names like 2.10, 2.22, 3.11 etc. I want to process all the files in all the subdirectories that begin with "1." first, then the ones with beginning with "2." etc.

I'm trying to use File:Find with a counter beginning at 1. If no file is found with that name, $_ is presumably undefined, so I want it to increment the counter and return to look for files beginning with the next number. That's where the (a?) problem occurs (if undef is "fake code" since I can't figure out how to express it). 
use File::Find;
my $name = 1;
find(\&Wanted, $dir);
sub Wanted {
        /$name\.*/;
        if undef {
              $name++;
              return;
       } else { 
       open(FILE, $_);
       my @lines = <FILE>;
       }
}

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