Yes, I realise this is getting to be a bit of a chestnut, but I'm having newbie problems opening each file in a directory, parsing each line. 
my $dir = "e:\\work\\testlogs";

opendir DIR, $dir or die "opendir: $!";

foreach my $name (readdir DIR) {
        next if /^\./;
        print "$name \n";
           process_file ($name);
}
closedir DIR;

sub process_file {
    my $file = @_;
    my @date = split(/-/, $file);
    print "@date \n";
    
    open (FILE, $file) or die "Could not open file: $!";
    while (defined(my $line = <FILE>)) {      
          my @fields = split(/\s+/, $line);
          my $machine = $fields[0];
          close FILE;
      }
}

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At the "foreach", I want each file in the directory to be opened, skipping files beginning with a ".". This is not working, with an error saying "use of unintialized value in pattern match".

More importantly, none of the files in the directory are being opened, with a "no such file or directory" being returned. Printing "$name", which I would hope contained the currently open file name, seems to produce ".", which is obviously what I'm trying to skip.

All wisdom much appreciated!

In reply to Processing all files in a directory by billie_t

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