Hi, this is my effort at renaming .puz files, and transferring to a sub directory.

I have plagiarised tachyon's snippet for renaming files
My modification does not work, and I would appreciate any comments and assistance.

I have left the debugging print statement in, in case anyone wants to set up a dummy folder with some .puz files and an empty subdirectory

Many thanks,
Joe, Townsville


    #!/usr/bin/perl -w
    use strict;

    my $dir = "c:/Xwords/";
    my $n=length "c:/Xwords/"; # There must be a better way of doing t
+his => Please??
    my $from = '.puz';
       my $to   = 'A.puz';
    my $newdir = "c:/Xwords/PrintedXwords/";
    
    while (<$dir*$from>) {            # checking for  .puz files
        my ($old,$new,$full);              # declaring variables
    $old = $full = $_;            # setting the full filename and path
    $new = $old =  substr $_,$n;        # removing the path details of
+ filename
    $new =~ s/$from$/$to/;            # changing the old file name
    
    print " \n \n";
    print " full name of original file is $full \n";
    print " name of original file is $old \n";
    print " full name of new file is {$newdir.$new} \n"; # does not co
+ncatenate - leaves the '.' visible
    print " \n \n";
    
        rename $full, {$newdir.$new};
     }


    print "Files renamed !";
    exit

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