in reply to Assigning keys and values to a hash using arrays

my (%inf,@info,@keys,$phile,$key,$value);

Generally no need to have such long declarations. Declare as close as possible to the actual use of the variable.

use Cwd; my $dir=Cwd->getcwd(); opendir(DIR,"$dir")or die "@!";

"@!"?!?

while ( $phile=readdir(DIR)){ if($phile=~/^\.$/){next;} elsif($phile=~/^\.\.$/){next;}

How 'bout

next if $phile =~ /.../;

instead? Also, regexen are great, but how 'bout

next if $phile eq '.' or $phile eq '..';

which is not exactly what you do, but is what I think you want to do.

elsif($phile=~/^(.*)$/)
"else if it matches anything else"...
{print "$phile\n";info($phile)} info ($phile); }

Huh?!? Twice?

sub info{ @info=stat($phile); @keys=qw(Dev Inode Mode NLink UID GID RDev Size ATime CTime Bl +ksize Blocks);

Huh?!? Why passing it as a parameter if you use it as a "global"? Just adopt a proper form of the former option! (See perldoc perlsub)

All in all if I understand correctly what you're after, it may be as simple as:

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use Cwd; my $dir=Cwd->getcwd; opendir my $dh, $dir or die "Can't open `$dir': $!\n"; while (my $file=readdir $dh) { next if $file eq '.' or $file eq '..'; print $file, "\n"; my %tmp; @tmp{qw/Dev Inode Mode NLink UID GID RDev Size ATime CTime Blksize + Blocks/}= stat $file; print Dumper \%tmp; } __END__

(using Data::Dumper for lazyness!)