Hello Monks! I am trying to change the file extension of all files with .txt to .html. I am using windows. Here is what I have so far. It runs fine without errors but doesnt provide the expected result. Could you please help? Thanks!

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Copy;


my $directory = 'C:\Perl';

chdir($directory) or die "Can't chdir to $directory $!"; 
opendir(DIR, $directory) || die "Couldn't opendir: $!\n";  

my @filesWithSpaces = grep(/.*\s.*\..*/, readdir (DIR));  

foreach (@filesWithSpaces)
{   
my $newName = $_;   
$newName =~ s/html$/txt/g;   
print "RENAMING: $_ -> $newName \n";   
rename($_, $newName); 
}

closedir(DIR);
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Sorry I did some more troubleshooting and got it working. Thank you!

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Copy;


my $directory = 'C:\Perl';

chdir($directory) or die "Can't chdir to $directory $!"; 
opendir(DIR, $directory) || die "Couldn't opendir: $!\n";  

my @files = grep { $_ ne '.' && $_ ne '..' } readdir DIR; 

foreach(@files)
{   
print $_,"\n";
my $newName = $_;   
$newName =~ s/html$/txt/g;   
print "RENAMING: $_ -> $newName \n";   
rename($_, $newName); 
}

closedir(DIR);
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