Re: How do I read all the file names of a directory into an array?

Use backticks (`) to execute a shell command and capture its output (see the perlop manpage):

  my @filename = split("\n", `ls`);
  my $total = scalar(@filename);
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This would replace everything after the line "use strict;" and before "$error = ...".

Note you can also replace your for-loop with a foreach which would mean you wouldn't need $total any longer. See perlsyn.

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