Hello everyone. Some of you have been kind enough to work with me in chatter with this, but this is a little much to copy in chatter. I am trying to store the file names in an array, which I was surprisingly able to do, however when I try to get each file from the array and open it I am unable to. My suspicion is that I am using the wrong context, my error message is "Couldn't open file: ARRAY", which is why I think I have a list in a scalar context.

sub getFiles {
    my @fileNames = [ "manimp1.txt", "manimp2.txt" ];
    for my $i (0..$#fileNames) {
        open (FILE, "<", $fileNames[$i]) or die "Couldnt open file:  $
+fileNames[$i]\n";
        while (<FILE>) {
            $count++;
            my @line_array = split (/\t/, $_);
            chomp(@line_array);
            my $key = shift(@line_array);
            my $aref = [@line_array];
            $newPrices{$key} = $aref;
        }
        delete ($newPrices{'Part Num.'});
    }
}
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I also tried

for my $file (@fileNames) {
        open (FILE, "<", $file) or die "Couldnt open file:  $file\n";
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This produced the same error. What I am attempting to do is build one hash with these two files, which was working fine when I was using user input to get the file names but since the file names will not change I wanted to bypass user input.

Sample of the data is as follows:

Part Num.    Description     Base Price     Code
001051536    * (R/B 455632)          455632
001460    Ring     11.17     
003034    Ball     0.82     
018422    Nut     1.69     
037506    Ring     3.25     
041112023071    Seal Kit     402.98     
041112030171    Engine Gasket Kit     611.32     
041112030271    Seal Kit     1,035.86
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I think I got all of the "problems" in here, double tabs, commas in the prices (who even does that), replacement parts, and non replaced parts.

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