yeah it should have had slashes thanks, now it does copy all the files in the dir, however I still get a cannot open the file yet but now its only happening twice, what is causing this error message is it trying to copy . and ..? apparenty that is what its doing, how do I get rid of it..I tried this but it didn't work I know its only happening because of the warning, but I want to get rid of it as it isn't really an error. not sure how to incorporate grep here.. 
use File::Copy;
#use strict;


my $dirpath="C:\\inetpub\\performancetesting\\output\\new\\mlx\\aar\\"
+;
my $dirpath2="c:\\temp\\";
opendir(IN,"$dirpath") or die "opening directory failed:$!";
while (defined (my $file = readdir(IN)) ) {
push (my @files, $file);

foreach my $filename (@files)
{
copy ("$dirpath".$filename, "$dirpath2".$filename) or warn "Can't open
+ the file yet $filename\n:$!";

need something like 
my @files=grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..'} 


   }
}
 
closedir(IN);

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in thread file copy undefined? by grashoper

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