Okay, I'm trying to find a Perl question in this post, and this is the closest thing I can find...

This is to be repeated till all .xml files in directory is exahausted.

Are you asking how to loop through all the .xml files in a directory? There's more than one way to do that, e.g., you could use glob or File::Find. If I were doing it, I'd probably use readdir. If you use glob or readdir, you can use grep to select only the files whose names end in .xml and run a foreach loop over the results, something like the following (untested): 

  opendir(MYDIR, $dirpathname)
    or die "Cannot open directory: $!";
  foreach my $xmlfile (grep {
      -f $_ and /[.]xml$/ } readdir MYDIR) {
    do_stuff_with($xmlfile);
  } closedir MYDIR;

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update: added filetest to prevent inadvertently treating a directory as an XML file if it happens to have a name ending in .xml

In reply to Re: Suggestion needed for automating 3 separate programs/components by jonadab
in thread Suggestion needed for automating 3 separate programs/components by Anonymous Monk

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