Greeetings. I have a windows folder full of .tif files, with names like: 123-monday.tif 234-monday-1of2.tif 345-monday-2of2.tif I have pooly crafted a script to read all the filenames in the directory, pull out the day and create a zip called monday.zip My problem is it willput these 3 files in, but each time it moves to the next file it removes the previous file. So as an example once the script is run the only file I have in the zip is 345-monday-2of2.tif. I tested by putting in a sleep command, stopping the script and looking in the zip, at the point I stopped it I could see it was putting the previous file in, but once it goes forward it kills the contents. I am not declaring the zip name, I read the filename, extract the day and name it monday.zip. 
my $zip = Archive::Zip->new();
    my $member = $zip->addDirectory( 'dirname/' );
    $member->desiredCompressionMethod();
    $member = $zip->addFile( "$file_to_zip", "$file_name" );          
+        
    die 'write error' unless $zip->writeToFileNamed( $zip_file_name ) 
+== AZ_OK;

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is there a way to make it not clear the zip file? I want this so each day it can scan a directory and add files to the already existing zip. Did I explain well enough?

In reply to newbie question to archive::zip by jashv

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