Greetings, I posted this question on perlmonks and received some great help, specifically from mirod but his recent suggestion is still not working.
Problem: This code only works when I hard-code the size to search for in the routine. I try to pass arguments using @_, but it does not work. How do I pass $size_input so wanted sees and uses it? Mirod's help: You need to pass an additional parameter to wanted. The way to do this is to use a closure: File::Find::find({wanted => sub { wanted( $size_input); } }, $fs_input ) ;. This way wanted is called by the anonymous sub, and gets passed $size_input. See Why I hate File::Find and how I (hope I) fixed it for more info. I read the "why i hate...." two and three times and yet still cannot get it to work. thank you in advance! http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=687008 use strict; use warnings; use File::Find; my ( @root_files, @large_files, %mounts, @mounts, ) ; use vars qw/*name *dir *prune/ ; *name = *File::Find::name ; *dir = *File::Find::dir ; *prune = *File::Find::prune ; <snip> } else { print "USING LAST ELSE\n"; my $size_input = ( int 25 * ( 1024**2 ) ) ; $size_input =~ tr /\000//d ; my $wanted = make_wanted ( \&wanted_1, $size_input ) ; File::Find::find( $wanted, $fs_input ) ; print "\n"; } sub wanted_1 { for my $key ( sort keys %mounts ) { if ( $fs_input eq $key ) { @mounts = grep {$fs_input} @{ $mounts{$key} } ; ###-- HoA --### } } if ( scalar @mounts > 0 ) { die "cant search...foobarbazzzzy $!" ; } else { my ( $size_input ) = shift @_ ; print $size_input,"\n"; my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) ; (( $dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid ) = lstat($_) ) && ( $dev >= 0 ) && !( $File::Find::prune |= ($dev != $File::Find::topdev ) ) && ( int(((-s _) + 1023) / 1024 ) > $size_input ) && push ((@large_files), $name ) ; } } sub make_wanted { my $wanted = shift ; # get the "real" wanted function my @args = @_ ; # "freeze" the arguments my $sub = sub { $wanted->( @args ); } ; # generate the anon sub return $sub ; # return it } print "\n",scalar @large_files,"\n"; exit; <snip> $size_input is being printed correctly/accurately, but nothing in the array. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/