Thanks for the pointers. I was embarrassed by all the responses, and I probably shouldn't have posted it. All of the responses were helpful in making changes to the code, but they did not solve the problem.

I tried to find out what pseudo code was, but I think that that may have been some sort of insult.

I'll get around to updating this properly when I figure out what's going on.

Thanks again!

#sifts all the server logs based on media type
use strict;
my ($type, $server,$out,$in,@input,$total,$kbytes,$mbytes);
my @servers=('a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m','n','
+o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z','aa','bb','cc','dd','e
+e','ff','gg','hh','ii','jj','kk','ll','mm','nn','oo','pp');

my $dir1='//worksatation/share/dir/';
my @types=('mp3','avi','mpg','mpe','wav','mov','rmj','zip','exe','wma'
+);

foreach $type (@types){
    $total=0;
    open OUT, ">$dir1/sifted/$type\.txt" or die "Cannot open $out for 
+write :$!";
    foreach $server (@servers){ 
        $in="$dir1/$server\.txt";
        open IN,"$in" or next;
        @input=<IN>;
        chomp @input;
        foreach (@input){
            if (/\.$type$/i){
                $kbytes = (stat)[7]/1024;
                $total+=$kbytes;
                print OUT "$_\t$kbytes KB\n";
            }
        }
        close IN;
    }
    $mbytes=$total/1024;
    print OUT "\n\nTotal: $mbytes MB\n";
    close OUT;
    print "Finished $type...\n";
}
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-OzzyOsbourne