use 5.011; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; my $inputPathPrefix = "C:/Temp/xml"; my @inputfiles; for my $i (1..7) { push(@inputfiles, $inputPathPrefix . "/test${i}.xml"); } say Dumper(\@inputfiles); #### $VAR1 = [ 'C:/Temp/xml/test1.xml', 'C:/Temp/xml/test2.xml', 'C:/Temp/xml/test3.xml', 'C:/Temp/xml/test4.xml', 'C:/Temp/xml/test5.xml', 'C:/Temp/xml/test6.xml', 'C:/Temp/xml/test7.xml' ];