On a side note, you rarely really want a C-style for(;;) loop in perl.

In your case it looks as though you want to access files called file1, file2, etc in turn.

A more perlish way of doing this (and one which is perhaps more robust against changes in the future) is to work out a list of filenames and process each of them.

You can use the glob function to get a list of files matching a pattern and then process each of those filenames. The pattern format isn't a regexp, but the same sort of pattern you'd give to a shell in Unix. For example, if you wanted to process every file in the current directory beginning with foo you could do: 

my @fnames = glob("foo*");
foreach my $fname (@fnames) {
  # Do something then $fname...
}

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If you want to use more complicated patterns, or prefer regexps, you can always just get all the names into a list and use grep: 
my @fnames = grep { /f(oo|u|)[0-9]{2}\.txt/ } glob("*");

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In reply to Re: multiple files and hashed by jbert
in thread multiple files and hashed by Anonymous Monk

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