You may get better marks if you populated a hash with the filename / directory pairs since this could be populated from a configuration file. 
my %destinations = qw(
file1 sysbacks
file2 alpha
file3 gamma/blue
file4 gamma/green
file5 gamma/green
);

#later

my $target = "$destinations{$filename}/$filename";

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I take your point about making his professor believe it was him. Even this code is too well written for a newbie. Try the following newbie style tips...

  1. Remove the elsif and hust have a bunch of if statements one after the other.
  2. Use a regex for the if test but manually assign $_ = $file beforehand.
  3. chomp the input on the way in.
  4. Use the $_ explicitly in the print statement with a newline to make up for the chomp!
  5. Use a different variable to store the name of the output file.

In reply to Re^2: Solution for your prof by inman
in thread <> diamond Operator by kocaweb

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