Use glob or opendir and readdir to get a list of filenames, then loop through the list.

For example,

my $dir = '.'
my @list = glob($dir . '/*'); # <- amended per merlyn's response
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or

my $dir = '.';
opendir(my $dh, $dir) or die "Could not open $dir because $!\n;
@list = readdir($dh);

closedir($dh);
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will return a list of files in the current working directory. My preference is to use glob for this sort of thing. Usually, the number of files in a directory will be small (no more than a few thousand), so storing the names in an array should not be a problem. You may want to filter @list, so that it contains only the type of file you want, but this is easy using grep. Glob can process wildcards, so @list could be restricted by something like

@list = glob($dir .'/A*');
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Alternatively, you could call readdir in a scalar context, and process the files one at a time. The code for this would look something like:

my $dir = '.';
opendir(my $dh, $dir) or die "Could not open $dir because $!\n;
while(readdir($dh)){
   # do stuff to $_
}
closedir($dh);
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As I said, since the number of files in a folder tends to be fairly small, I prefer to use glob, possibly in conjunction with grep to get a list of file names, and then loop through that list.

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Corrected call to glob; see merlyn's response.

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