done...again open fails! see this 
#!/usr/bin/perl
@files = <C:/Perl/bin/Anti/*>;
foreach $file (@files){
print "$file \n";
# found to be ok....prints all the files...
open(MYFILE,"<","C:/Perl/bin/Anti/$file") or die "Failed to open file:
+ $file:$! ";
while(<MYFILE>) {

    print "$_ \n \n \n";

}
}

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it prints all the file names... I do not have any sub directories...but I used grep also... fails on file 1. gosh! hey...sorry for the earlier mistakes...I was lost in some world...the count is for some other purpose...was using a stupid method to see the counts of loops... and when I said opened, I meant all permissions... I am able to extract data from the individual files but when I run a loop for the folder, the files are not being opened...its acting weird! thanks for the assistance guys! much appreciated!

In reply to Re^2: Unable to read files from a directory by antidote1316
in thread Unable to read files from a directory by antidote1316

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