Is there some reason you are not using File::Find for this?

Well, it seems that one very good reason is that the OP doesn't show any need for recursive descent of a directory tree. All the files are in a single directory, and File::Find is overkill for that -- and somewhat harder to grok (because of all the unrelated things it does), compared to the simple glob example in the first reply, or the basic "opendir...; readdir..." functions, which are also much easier to learn than File::Find -- e.g.: 

opendir( D, "." ) or die "WTF? $!";

for my $file ( grep /\.txt$/, readdir D ) {
   # do whatever it is the OP is doing...
}

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For that matter, the OP didn't say one way or the other, but maybe there are subdirectories containing "*.txt" files, and he might actually prefer to leave those alone -- just process the ones in the current directory. In that case, File::Find would cause real trouble (or at least extra work to avoid trouble).

In reply to Re: Re: There is more than one way (and mine is not the best) by graff
in thread There is more than one way (and mine is not the best) by NovMonk

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