my @bannedF = ('c:/win32app/toolkit',     
            'c:/winnt',
            'C:/WINNT/system32',            
            'd:/perl',
            'd:/brossad');

my $folder = 'c:/TEMP/sdfs';



for (0..$#bannedF)
   {
      return BANNED if ($folder eq $bannedF[$_]);   
        # if folder is directly equal to a banned folder
      if ($mode == INC_SUBDIRS) 
        # if a parent folder is banned then so are the subfolders unless otherwise stated
      {
         $folder =~ /^($bannedF[$_]).*/;
         print "$_ out of $#bannedF - $bannedF[$_] - regexp value : $1\n";
         return BANNED if ($1); 
            # example : $folder = c:\temp\one; $bannedF[$_] = c:\temp
      }
   }