Hey all, So, with the help of everyone else I was able to get the file name globbing taken care of. Now I'm running into a problem of not being able to open a file. I have a parameter file that contains the names of two other files with full pathnames. In my code, I try to open the parameter file for reading but die with "bad file descriptor". Here is my code: 
sub parse_mail {
    my $mail = "@_";
    open (MAIL,$mail) || die "Cannot open $mail, $!";
        @mailf = <MAIL>;
        chomp (@mailf);
    close (MAIL) || die "Cannot close $mail, $!";

    return @mailf;    
}

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I would appreciate any help that anyone might give. Thanks in advance, Bradley 
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