Hello,

there are more than one ways to do it...

1. Call the programm with a parameterlist where the last is the filename you are looking for and remove this name before starting find with my $filename = pop(@ARGV); and then compare each found filename with $filename

2. Use named parameters, e.g. with the Getopt::* - modules (e.g Getopt::Long) 3. Use named parameters and care for them by yourself, e.g.

scriptname.pl --dir="/dir1/sdir1" --dir="/dir2/sdir2" --file="thisfile
+.txt"
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I don't know if there are modules that handle this case. If not, you could do it like the following:

my $params = &GetParameters();
my @dirs = @{ $params->{dir} };
my @file = @{ $params->{file} };
# and so on

sub GetParameters {
  my @allowedParams = qw(file dir);
  die &PrintUsage() unless @ARGV;
  my $params = {}; # shell contain parameters

  foreach (@ARGV){
    my ($key, $val) = split(/\=/, $_, 2); # split up by the first =
 
    # test if $key is a valid parameter
    unless ($key =~ s/^\-\-//) { # must start with --
        die "Error: invalid param $key\n";
    }
    unless ( grep {lc($key) eq lc($_)} @allowedParams){
        die "Error: param $key not allowed\n";
    }
       
    # maybe do some checks if $val is existing
    ....
    # add param to hashreference $params
    push (@{ $params->{$key} }, $val);

  } # for
  return ($params);
} # GetParameters
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But before you use this code (which I haven't tested), better look if there's a module on CPAN that solves this problem.

Btw: i think programming with use strict; and use warnings; might be a very good idea, because it is much easier to find "silly" and "not-so-silly" errors that way

Best regards,
perl -le "s==*F=e=>y~\*martinF~stronat~=>s~[^\w]~~g=>chop,print"