I do NOT want to sound ingrateful.....but, I'm trying your code and failing miserably.: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $file1 = "trixee"; #just some nicknames!
my $file2 = "limo";
my $file3 = "nata";

my @files = qw(file1 file2 file3);
          my @contents;

          foreach (@files) {
            open FILE, $_ 
              or do { warn "Can't open $_: $!\n"; next }

            push @contents, [<FILE>];
          }
foreach my $tmp(@contents) {
print "$tmp\n";
}

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This fails with:

"syntax error at ./testsub.pl line 16, near "push"
"Execution of ./testsub.pl aborted due to compilation errors".

Any ideas?

In reply to What am I doing wrong? by Tuna
in thread Arrays of files from an array of file names by Tuna

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