I took your code and removed the calls to the missing subs, since I don't know what they do (as they aren't posted), and it works fine for me... as follows: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

get_section('E0209.dat','F0210.dat','H0211.dat');

sub get_section {
  $docdir = "./";
  print join ':', @_ , "\n";
  for (@_) {
    print ;
    /\.dat/ && do {
      $file = join '/', ($docdir, $_);
      $pubdate = substr ($_, 1, 4);
      print "$file \:\: $pubdate\n" ;
    } ;
  }
}

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And I add back in your other calls, and add stub code, and it still works fine for me. ?? 
--
bliz

In reply to Re: Not looping... Am I a moron? by bliz
in thread Not looping... Am I a moron? by HamNRye

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