my $dir = "INPUT"; my $pattern = '.txt'; opendir DIR, $dir or die "cant open dir"; my @files = grep /\.txt/,(readdir DIR); closedir DIR; #print "@files\n"; foreach my $file (@files){ my $filepath = "$dir/$file"; print "$filepath\n"; open (INF, $filepath)||warn "Can not open $filepath"; $data=join ("", ); print "$data\n"; }