My dilemna is that I have a number of text files in a directory, say C:\Text_Files. They all follow the same naming convention, mlb_boxscore$124728.txt, mlb_boxscore$429722.txt, and so on. Right now, I have code written that sorts the file with the greatest numerical value. I am trying to move this file to another directory and rename it as soon as it gets there. So far, I can only get the sort to work and I am unable to move the file to the new directory, and am not sure how to rename files, so if there are any suggestions I would greatly appreaciate them. Below is what I have written out so far, it's weak to say the least. 
my $base_dir = "C:/Text_Files";
my $new_dir  = "D:/Test";

opendir (DIR, "C:/Text_Files") || die "Could not open data directory\n
+";
my ($top_file) = reverse sort readdir(DIR);
closedir (DIR);

use File::Copy;
move($base_dir.$top_file, $new_dir.$top_file);

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