rob_smith01 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Does anyone know how I can read in multiple files from a directory at one time. I have a created a script which can read in a singlular file line by line. I have made it soit maniputes the data the way inwhich I need to. cheers Rob
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Re: reading in multiple files froma linux directory
by bikeNomad (Priest) on Jul 18, 2001 at 19:35 UTC
    You can set @ARGV to the list of files in a BEGIN block:

    # do a line count of all my .pl files:
BEGIN { @ARGV=glob("*.pl") }
my $i = 0;
while (<>)
{
 $i++;
}
print "$i\n";

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Re: reading in multiple files froma linux directory
by twerq (Deacon) on Jul 18, 2001 at 19:31 UTC
    The general practice is to opendir, then readdir into an array, then step through the array doing your file processing on each element.

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