note marto <p><i>"but can please someone show me how to store these basenames in some sort of array so that i can use them later part in the code."</i></p> <p>Consider reading and understanding the code you've posted, you already do this for a different array/value:</p> <c> push(@dir, $file); </c> <p>So rather than print the value of <c>basename($file)</c> to screen push the value of <c>basename($file)</c> into <c>@dir_names</c>.Read [doc://push], [http://learn.perl.org].</p> <p><b>Update:</b> slight clarification.</p> 1007640 1007714