Why must you use the array @files? This strikes me as a rather pointless constraint. What are you trying to do?

Dealing with your attempt to read the files in your directory: as said by moritz, use glob. It's what it's made for. Your first step would look something like this:

my $files = join(" ", (glob("0[89]-*.txt")));#I suffer from parentheti
+caphilia. sorry

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@files will now contain a blank-separated list of files which start with 08 or 09, followed by a hyphen and ending with '.txt'. You could then pass this to your ls -l command (the one in the backticks) and do the post-processing from your hash.pl routine.

Alternatively, you could use opendir, readdir, and grep, resulting in something like this:

opendir(my $DH, "."); # opens pwd

@files = grep {/^0[89]-.+\.txt$} readdir($DH);

closedir($DH);

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But it would be a really good idea to tell the Monks–many of whom actually like explaining the nuances of Perl if the question is couched appropriately–what your goal is.

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In reply to Re: Array problem......PLEASE HELP! by swampyankee
in thread Array problem......PLEASE HELP! by green_lakers

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