Greetings All - I am having some difficulty with a module that is using File::Find. The method is below.
The idea is to enter this method feeding it a file name and beginning directory and then looking for all occasions of $file_name and push those addresses into @a_files. This works fine until I need to use FindPath again during the same session. What I'm finding is that while @a_files looses scope within FindPath itself, it does not in ProcessFile. In other words, when I exit FindPath and come back into it later, @a_files is an uninitiated array. However when ProcessFile is called, @a_files has retained the values it had from the last call to FindPath. Am I making sense? sub FindPath { #- Var Declaration And Initialization my ($hr_self, $file_name, $file_path) = @_; # Array to fill with file paths my @a_files = (); # Search file_path for the file find(\&ProcessFile, $file_path); #- The Subroutine To Process Files And Directories sub ProcessFile {if ($_ eq $file_name){push (@a_files, $File::Find::name);}} # Return the paths found return @a_files; } # end FindPath Peace - Ron Goral -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>