Hello Perl Monks, I am trying to parse multiple files from a directory line by line. There are multiple fields in the log file and I am taking example of one field. Here is my script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
chdir("c:/perl/logs") or die "$!";
opendir (DIR, ".") or die "$!";
my @files = grep {/2010*/}  readdir DIR;
close DIR;
{   local @ARGV = @files;

foreach my $file (@files) 
    {
    open(FILE,"c:/perl/logs/$file") or die "No file !";

    while (@logs = <FILE>)
        {

        foreach $odate (@logs)
            { 
            if ($odate =~/\bdate=(\d{1,4}-\d{1,2}-\d{1,2})/i)
                {
                $date = $1;
                print "$date\n"; ### prints all dates from all files
                }
            }
                print "$date\n"; ### Only prints last date from each f
+ile    


        }
    }
}
close FILE;
exit(0);

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I am trying to get all date values from all files in $date and I want to use these values outside the foreach loop. but still inside the while loop.
Please let me know if there is another way to accomplish this, I am new to perl and still learning.

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