You may want to look at the glob() function to get the list of files, such as: 

# Assumes filenames of the form *yyyymmdd.txt
my $filepattern = sprintf("*%d%d%d.txt", 
  1900+(localtime)[5], 1+(localtime)[4], (localtime)[3]); 
foreach my $filename (glob($filepattern)) {
    # Process individual files herein
}

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As to finding the count of the number of times the expression is found, perhaps something along the lines of: 

  # Looking, for instance, for "/usr/.*/?bin/perl"
  my $regex = qr{(/usr/.*/?bin/perl)}gs; 
  my ($line);
  {
    open(DF, $filename) 
      or die("Can't open $filename for input: $!\n");
        my @lines = <DF>;
    close(DF);
    $line = join('', @lines);
  }
  my @matches = $line =~ m/$regex/;
  printf "Filename: %40s Occurrances: %9d\n", 
    $filename, 
    scalar @matches;

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Hope that helps.

Update: 19 Dec 2004 - Added values for sprintf function in first code section

In reply to Re: opening multiple files by atcroft
in thread opening multiple files by sandeep

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