I intend to keep all the text in the __DATA__ fields, but not in their current directories. I am not sure what the difference is between me leaving the files in place and renaming them or moving the text to a new directory with a similar new filename.

./Collections/Fiction.pl # to
./Collections/Fiction.txt # or
./files/text/Collections/Fiction.txt
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Leaving them in place would mean adding another grep to exclude all .txt files in the directories in base_menu along with initial lower case files. I'm having difficulty rewriting base_menu for the new structure I am contemplating.

I think .dat would expand to "data", so what would .lat expand to be? I am curious.