I guess you got this code from somewhere else. This comment is on target....A directory is just a file. You will need to filter those out. -f option will get non-directory files. Also note that readdir only returns a filename, not a full path. when doing operations on that file, you need to supply the path to the DIR. 
my @files = readdir(DIR); # you may want to grep only certain files he
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#I think you need something like:
my @files = grep{-f "$dir/$_"} readdir(DIR);

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I didn't mean to be impolite and I have revised my text. No offense was intended. The #comment in the poster's own code was correct. The poster will need to use a filter to get the "simple files" from the DIR.

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