note bart If you're just interested in "*.txt" files in one directory, I recommend to forego using [readdir] and friends, and go straight to [doc://glob]. <c> @txt_files = glob qq("C:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop\\Cluster1\\*.txt"); </c> <p>Unlike [readdir], [glob] returns the full path in the same format as you passed as an argument: absolute path in yields absolute path out; relative path in (relative to the current working directory of perl which you can change with [chdir]) yields relative path out. <p>Note that if (and only if) your $dirname contains spaces, then the double quotes are required. You don't have to put them around the whole path-with-wildcards, replacing every single space with <c>qq(" ")</c> will work, too. 1007994 1007994