#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use File::Find; use File::Slurp; use Pod::Select; my $dir = "h:/temp/TestAppNotes/Pod/"; my %podstrings; find ( sub { return if -d; ### I would like to assign ### $filestrings{$File::Find::name} = podselect $File::Find::name; my $tmpfile = "$dir/tmpfile.txt"; podselect {-output => $tmpfile}, $File::Find::name; if (-s $tmpfile) { $podstrings{$File::Find::name} = scalar read_file($tmpfile) } }, $dir); for (keys %podstrings) { printf "%s %d\n", $_, -s $_; } __END__