I'm new to PERL and have been tinkering around with a program that will loop through files in a directory, take the data stored in the file and place it in an array, convert the array to a character string, and then run html::TableExtract on the data to pull out a table I'm looking for. I get an error that looks like this "readline closed on file handle... line 20" Any suggestions would be great. Also since I haven't been able to get that far yet, does this look like it could actually search the html in the file for a table? 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use 5.014;      # so push/pop/etc work on scalars (experimental)
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;

use LWP::Simple 'get';
use HTML::TableExtract;
use HTML::FormatText::WithLinks::AndTables;

my $directory = 'F:\\SEC10q\\10Qs\\';
#print "$directory\n";
my $n = 0;
opendir (DIR, $directory) or die $!;
    while (my $secfile = readdir(DIR)) {
        #print $directory."$secfile\n";    
        my $data = $directory."$secfile";
        ##########################
        open (DATA, $data);
            my @secdata = <DATA>;
            my ($str) = join "",@secdata;
        close(DATA);
            print $str;
            $n=$n+1;
            print "$n\n";
        #########################
        my $te = HTML::TableExtract->new(
            headers => [ 'Purchased','Average','Publicly','May'],
            slice_columns => 0,keep_html => 0,br_translate => 0 #shoul
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        );
        
        $te->parse($str);
        
            
        

    }

closedir(DIR);

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