Hello perl197, and welcome to the Monastery!
Just a side note. The code:
my @file_name;
while (<FH>) {
push (@file_name, $_);
}
can be replaced with the simpler and more idiomatic:
my @file_name = <FH>;
Here is the explanation, from readline:
In scalar context, each call reads and returns the next line until end-of-file is reached, whereupon the subsequent call returns undef. In list context, reads until end-of-file is reached and returns a list of lines.
In your code, while (<FH>) puts <FH> into scalar context1, so the while loop is needed to call <FH> repeatedly until the file is exhausted. But in the simpler version, assignment to an array variable (in this case, @file_name) puts the call to <FH> into list context, so <FH> is called only once and returns a list of all the lines in the file.
Hope this is of interest,
Update: 1Because of the implicit assignment to $_.
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