The reason that I raised the question in the first place, is that skipping the directory scan just because there is just one file seems like a very strange thing to do. Even if its a conscious decision made by learningperl01 (note the handle), I still believe its appropriate to raise the question, since it looks like a classical off by one error.

The printed error message could just be a sloppy way of writing there are no files to process, but we're hardly getting anything out of discussing it further, since learningperl01 isn't following the thread any longer.