Use <code> tags when posting code snippets. :-)

You're actually getting the totals for all the files. Try the following: 

#!/perl/bin/perl
#
# Author: L.H
# Script Name: lab6-1
# Date Written: March 15, 2005
# Purpose: Basic I/0
#
#

use strict;

foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
    open(FILE, "$file");
    my $sum = 0;
    while (<FILE>) {
        $sum+=$_;
        print "$file $_\n";
    }
    print "$sum\n";
    close( FILE );
}

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The major change is the my $sum = 0; line. It scopes $sum to be within the foreach-loop. This means that it gets reset every time. You'll notice I added strict to my version. This provides some typo-checking, and also requires that you declare your variables (preferably with my) beforehand.

This node was much better than your previous nodes. You posted what you tried and why it didn't work. This means we'll help you out, explaining why what you did didn't work and how to improve it. We'll edit, not create.


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