First, are you sure @files isn't supposed to be ($file1, $file2, $file3)? Right now, you're just setting it to the STRINGS ('file1', 'file2', 'file3').

Anyway, you're missing the semicolon at the end of the do BLOCK expression on line 14. do BLOCK turns a BLOCK (which DOESN'T need a semicolon at the end) into an expression.

And you can get away from that by doing: 
open FILE, $_ or warn("...: $!"), next;

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

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