Hi Perl Monks, I'm seeking some insight into an error I am receiving when using File::Slurp's read_file. What I'm doing is reading all files and sub-directories in a directory into an array using ls -AR. Then I want to read each file in this array into a scalar for further processing, using File::Slurp. However the first file read_file hits it returns an error: read_file 'dir_name/file_name' - sysopen: No such file or directory at 'file_name' This first file is a shell script, executable, text file and it does exist. Following is an example of the code I'm using to test this. 
my $a = 0;
while (@fNameArray)
    {
    if(-d substr($fNameArray[$a], 1, -2))
       {
       $dirName = substr($fNameArray[$a], 1, -2);
#directory name is allocated to a scalar for reuse.

       }#end if
       elsif(! -d substr($fNameArray[$a], 1, -2))
           {
     $data = read_file($dirName.'/'.substr($fNameArray[$a], 1, -1));

           }#end elsif
    $a++; 
    }#end while

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The substr calls are necessary because when ls -AR returns its list of files and directories it will return directory names with a semi-colon and newline appended and file names are returned with a newline appended. These have to be removed also the directory name and file name have to be spliced with a / to give the read_file call a valid 'path/filename'. I assumed that read_file would read any file into a scalar, and I expected it to read a text file without problems. Can anyone please point out what I'm doing wrong? The file is processed as it is found - without a file name extension.

In reply to File::Slurp read_file error by patt

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