This worked out great: 
use File::DosGlob qw(bsd_glob); # to get sane whitespace semantics

my $pattern = '/home/kelder/files/*.txt';

@ARGV = glob $pattern;

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Only there is a new problem; my output file list reads like this: 
Ai0.txt
Ai1.txt
Ai2.txt
...
Ai10.txt
Ai11.txt

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What ends up happening is that in my "results" file, where I print my counts, the order of the inputs is messed up. 
Output:
File1
File10
File11
File2

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How do I fix this ordering? Can I input the files in the order they are in the directory with another method? Thanks for all of the help so far!!

In reply to Re^2: Multiple file input into a perl script by kelder
in thread Multiple file input into a perl script by kelder

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