Hi thanks for that but I now seem to seeing this other problem again something I have seen before but I guess this is what happens when you have spent almost a year not doing anything with Perl. Help much needed :-) I now see the following error Undefined subroutine &main::fileparse called at testedi line 17 (#1) (F) The subroutine indicated hasn't been defined, or if it was, it has since been undefined. Uncaught exception from user code: Undefined subroutine &main::fileparse called at testedi line 17. I have checked and double checked for mistakes like the one you pointed out, I’m sure it’s going to be something really silly again. Help much needed :-) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use diagnostics;
use Cwd;
my $dir = getcwd;
my $edihome = "/home/dsadmin/EDI";

opendir(FH, $edihome);
@orderlist = grep { !/^\.\.?\z/ && -e "$edihome/$_" } readdir FH;
@orderlist = glob "*.tst";
my %ext_map = ( '.tst' => '.test' );

open(FHA, ">renamebatch");
for my $file (@orderlist) {
my ($old_filename, undef, $ext) = fileparse($file,qr{\..*});
     my $new_ext = $ext_map{$ext} || $ext;
     my $new_filename = $old_filename;
print(FHA "$file\n");
}

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