I would like to open multiple files and parse through them at the same time. The reason I'm doing this is to edit logs, but I need to be able to open multiple and edit them all because the data from one log file can spill over into the next log file. I would like to open them like this: 
open( FILE1, "path here" );
open( FILE2, "path here" );
open( FILE3, "path here" );

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I know that with one file open I can easily go through it by looping like this: 
while( $lines = <FILE1> )
{
"Do fun stuff here"
}

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So a more precise version of my question is whether or not I can do something like that while loop but with lots of files? Any help would be appreciated.

In reply to replacing text in multiple files by brayk1990

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