That is not perl code. It won't even compile.

I assume you mean something more like this:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @array = qw/ foo bar baz blah /; 

for(my $i = 0; $i < @array; $i++) {
    print "$i $array[$i]\n";
}
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Which is fine but this is better:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @array = qw/ foo bar baz blah /; 

foreach my $filename (@array) {
    print "$filename\n";
}
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Please notice I added use strict; and use warnings these are a MUST when you are learning perl.

Also notice I did not use the actual open - I simplified to find the real root of the problem