can anybody tell me why this doesnt work. I amjust trying to change to lower case the names of my files

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

BEGIN {
    $|=1;
    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    use CGI::Carp('fatalsToBrowser');
}

use strict;
my $file;

opendir (DIR, "/home/costas/test") or die "cannot opendir dir";
foreach $file (readdir(DIR)) 
{
    rename($file, lc($file));
    print "$file<br>";
}
closedir (DIR);
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the files have been chmod at 777 and the print statement prints out the filenames fine. Can anyone see the mistake?

costas

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