UPDATE: Thanks to ikegami for the solution I needed!

I've got an array full of filenames (including paths) which I'm sorting into categories based on the filepaths. However, one of the categories is also based on the number of files in its folders. For instance, if the filepath contains the word "Paper", then it should be categorized as "paper". However, if there is more than 200 files in that filepath, then it should be categorized as "collection".

Here's what I'm doing now and it's not working correctly. Suggestions? 

foreach $file (@file_list) {
 
 my $file_path = dirname($file);

 if ($file_path =~ m/paper/i){
   
   my @files = <$file_path/*>;
          
   my $count = scalar(@files);
        if( $count < 200 ){  
       $category = "paper";
     } else{
       $category = "collection";
     }
  }
}

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In reply to Counting files in a folder by JKasting

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