in reply to Opening multiple files for input

Part of what you want is a simple loop:
foreach my $file ("$LOGDIR\\sec-ghost01-12-09-2004-21-43.csv", "$LOGDIR\\sec-ghost01-12-10-2004-21-43.csv", "$LOGDIR\\sec-ghost01-12-11-2004-21-43.csv") { open(INPUT,"< $file") or die "Can't open '$file': $!\n"; while (my $line = <INPUT>) { chomp($line); # process } }

If you don't want to list the files explicitly, you'll want to use opendir and readdir, or else follow Zed_Lopez's suggestion and use glob.