Your code is completely hopeless, even as pseudo code so I'm pretty much ignoring it completely. I suspect you are very new to Perl and maybe haven't actually written very much working code. As a hint for the future: always use strictures (use strict; use warnings;).

However your first paragraph and node title resonate with each other and strongly suggest you want a Perl hash in the mix somewhere. It's a little more complicated than just a hash though because you have a list of files to process and lists of things are stored in an array. So the data structure you probably need is and array of hashes. Consider:

use warnings;
use strict;
#       Source Location, Filename, An ID that I need for file processi
+ng

my @files = (
    {path => 'C:\Source1\\',      name => 'File1.txt', id => 'Referenc
+e1'},
    {path => 'D:\Source2\sub\\',  name => 'File2.txt', id => 'Referenc
+e2'},
    {path => 'E:\Source3\sub2\\', name => 'File3.xml', id => 'Referenc
+e3'},
    {path => 'C:\Source4\\',      name => 'File4.pgp', id => 'Referenc
+e4'},
    );

my $to = "Z:\\Processing\\";

for my $file (@files) {
    print "Move '$file->{path}$file->{name}' to '$to$file->{name}' ref
+ $file->{id}'\n";
}

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prints:

Move 'C:\Source1\File1.txt' to 'Z:\Processing\File1.txt' ref Reference
+1'
Move 'D:\Source2\sub\File2.txt' to 'Z:\Processing\File2.txt' ref Refer
+ence2'
Move 'E:\Source3\sub2\File3.xml' to 'Z:\Processing\File3.xml' ref Refe
+rence3'
Move 'C:\Source4\File4.pgp' to 'Z:\Processing\File4.pgp' ref Reference
+4'

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True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: Howto build an (associative?) array to process files in different locations by GrandFather
in thread Howto build an (associative?) array to process files in different locations by shadowfox

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