I'd like to encourage you to check out the above advice.

Here is an alternative that I am becoming fond of:

my @data;
foreach my $file (@ARGV) {
    push @data, substr( $file, -12, 12 );
    local( *ARGV );
    @ARGV= ($file);
    push( @data, <> );
}
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        - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")