Looks like the first value in @file_names is uninitialised. There's nothing wrong with your usage of foreach - except that it's going to exit immediately after printing the first value in @file_names instead of iterating through the entire array. Here's a simple way of generating the warning (and, btw, it is only a warning, not an error): 
C:\_32>perl -wle "@file_names=(undef);foreach(@file_names){print $_}"
Use of uninitialized value in print at -e line 1.

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If you're on nix and not windows then you'll need to replace the double quotes with single quotes.

Cheers,
Rob

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