Yeah that why i used it in the 1st place while (<filehandle>) read a file line be line and only went false if there were no ther lines left so it escaped the llop

while (@files) i believed would do the same thing as while (<filehandle>) did, except from insteading of reading a file line-by-line up ot the end i thought it would read an item-by-item over @array until the end of items and then go false.