Hi, I'm trying to get each XML file's name in a directory, then put the file's name in that XML file under an element <asset-id>, but how come I can have the output displayed on the screen, using ./myPerl.pl, but I don't know how to write the output file using "open (FILE,">$directory/$_") ", I always get an empty XML file after I add the ">" in the line. I tried to put a line "print FILE $_;" at the end of the While loop, but it doesn't work. I know that I need to output the FILE, but how? Can anyone help? 
my $directory = '/usr/local/XML'; 

opendir(DIR,$directory);
my @files = grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' } readdir DIR;
closedir(DIR);<BR>

foreach(@files){
  open (FILE,"$directory/$_") 
  my $files="$_";
  while(<FILE>){
    print $_;
    if ($_=~/(<asset-id)(.*?)>/){
       print "\t\t <local-id>$files</local-id>\n";
    }
  }
  close(FILE);
}

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