Alright, I have a series of files that I need to access the first line in. They are all ending in .total (example: blackdeath.total and dandelion.total) and are all in the same directory.

What I'd like to do is have perl organize them by value, from largest to smallest. As a step to this, I've created a textfile with the filename for each one of these on a seperate line.

The Text File:

Black Death
Jesse Gunn
The Crimson Shadow
Ariana London
Legion
Scorpio
Greg Manix
[download]

etc

Now, I'm not exactly sure how to do this, but this is what I have so far:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;

my $wrestlerdir = '/home/ewexpert/public_html/rosterrank';

open(FILE, "$wrestlerdir/wrestlerlist.txt");
    my @lines = <FILE>;

chop(@lines);

  foreach my $str (@lines) {
    chomp(@lines);
  }

close(FILE);

foreach my $test (@lines) {
open my $fh, "<", "$wrestlerdir/@lines.total" or die "Can't open @line
+s.total $!";
my @total = <$fh>;
}
print header, start_html('Rankings: '), end_html;
[download]

Well, it's a start. Unfortunately, it doesn't work and I think part of it is that chomp is the wrong command. Here's what it's displaying:

Can't open Black Death
 Jesse Gunn
 The Crimson Shadow
 Ariana London
 Legion
 Scorpio
 Greg Mani.total No such file or directory at test.cgi line 21.
[download]

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