So I tried the code you provided,and while it did pipe all the files in, in listed them all in one line in the results file.
A sample of what I received:
File#   A    B   C
1       5    6   3

What I wanted:
File#   A    B   C
1       2    1   0
2       2    4   2
3       1    1   1
This is my code:
#!C:\Perl use strict; BEGIN{ @ARGV=map glob, @ARGV; } open(RES, ">>results.txt"); print RES "File Number A A% B B% Null Null%\n"; my $A=0; #these three lines set my initial counts at zero my $B=0; my $null=0; my $filenum=0; while (<>){ chomp($_); if ($_ eq "stringa"){ $A++;} elsif ($_ eq "stringb"){ $B++;} else { $null++; } } my $popa=$A/1000; #these lines determine what percent of the populatio +n the strings represent my $popa=sprintf('%.2f',$popa); #cut the percentages to two decimal pl +aces my $popb=$B/1000; my $popb=sprintf('%.2f',$popb); my $popnull=$null/1000; my $popnull=sprintf('%.2f',$popnull); my $filenum++; #Add one to my filenumber print RES "$filenum $A $popa $B $popb $null $pop +null\n"; #print the results out to the "results" file
What am I doing wrong? Edit: Thanks for the help so far!

In reply to Re^2: Piping many individual files into a single perl script by kelder
in thread Piping many individual files into a single perl script by kelder

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":



  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.