You should only attempt to use a filehandle if open returned a true value.    Try something like this instead:

foreach my $file ( @files ) {
  open FH, '<', $file or do {
    warn "Cannot open '$file' $!";
    next;
    };
  my @fileContents = <FH>;
  close FH;

//Do something with @fileContents
}
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