It will open files that start with $digit. The star after $digit is a glob. For example, when $digit is 1, then you'll get all files starting with 1. If you need to put some more path around that, go ahead. For example:

</path/to/some/directory/$digit*>
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Ok I got it working I would like to change up a little of what I am doing, Instead of how if is currently printing the data I would like to to print it into a table Something that looks liek this

       0:00  1:00 2:00  3:00 ... 23:00
aug 1   data from text files here
aug 2   data from text files here
aug 3   data from text files here
aug 4   data from text files here
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again here is my current code

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI ':standard';

print header,
    start_html('Player Point Tracker'),
    h1('W51 Point Tracker'),
    start_form,
    body('The website is also case sensitive and may take awhile to se
+arch, It will be looking though alot of data.'), p,
    'Players Name: ',
    textfield('name'), br,
    submit('Search!'),
    end_form, p,
    hr;



my $search_term =param('name');
print "$search_term", p;
for my $digit (0 .. 9) {
    for my $file (<$digit*>) {
        open (my $FILE_HANDLE, '<', $file) || die "Can't open $file: $
+! \n";
        while (<$FILE_HANDLE>) {
            chomp;
            my ($word, $count) = split / /, $_;
            if ($word =~ /^$search_term$/) {
                print "At $file $word had $count points.", p;
                #print "$file";
            }
        }
        close ($FILE_HANDLE);
    }
}
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Thanks you have been really helpful, but when doing this </path/to/some/directory/$digit*> I get the following errors

Bareword found where operator expected at pointsnew.cgi line 24, near 
+"/var/www"
        (Missing operator before www?)
"my" variable $file masks earlier declaration in same scope at pointsn
+ew.cgi line 25.
syntax error at pointsnew.cgi line 24, near "/var/www"
syntax error at pointsnew.cgi line 37, near "}"
Execution of pointsnew.cgi aborted due to compilation errors.
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