fruiture,

Thanks for the reply (as well as everyone else). I tried your code in my script as such:

# Build a Regex

my $rexstr=join'|',map {quotemeta $_} @exts; 
my $rex=qr/(?:$rexstr)$/i;

# Directory to Ignore 

my $dir = qr/pics/i;

my @list;

# Find the files
find({ 
      wanted =>sub{ print "Found a match: $_\n" if /$rex/; 
        push @list,$_ if /$rex/} , 
        no_chdir => 1, 
        preprocess => sub { grep not /$dir/ => @_ },
      }, 
      $search_root
    );
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but I'm getting the error:

Not enough arguments for grep at test.pl.txt line 30, near "@_ }"
Execution of test.pl.txt aborted due to compilation errors.
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I think my syntax is correct. I did end up taking John M. Dlugosz and FamousLongAgo suggestion and use a blank return statement instead and I got it to do what I want. I'm still curious about this preprocess function though. I could not find any mention to it in the File::Find docs. nor in perlsub Where can I read more on this function?

Also, I went back and read my node and in my text, and  next if $string, should have read  next if $dir. Hope that didn't confuse anyone.

Thanks,
Dru
Another satisfied monk.