Cabrion, I change my code a bit but I still cannot get it to work. I keeps givng me "Global Symbol $dir requires explicit package name in line 32 and 35" I'm really hitting a wall could you help??? I don't know why it keeps giving me the error. I really need to do a recursive directory search. I'll appreciate your help...

#! perl 

use strict;
use File::Copy;
use File::Find;

no warnings 'File::Find';

my $infile = "c:\\doclist1.chr";
my @directories;

# first lets build our directory list
open IN, "<$infile" or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
while (<IN>) {
    chomp;
    my @fields   = split /,/;
    my $path_str = $fields[6];
    do { warn "Empty field 7"; next } unless $path_str;
    my @path = split /\\/, $path_str;
    # push the directories into an array
    push @directories, join "\\", @path[ 0, 5, 6 ];
}
close IN;

exit;

# now we have a directory list in @directories let's process it
for my $dir ( @directories ) {
    process_directories($dir);
}

find(\&process_directories, $dir);

sub process_directories {
    if ($File::Find::dir ne $dir)
    {
        $File::Find::prune = 1;
        return 0;
    }

    return 0 if ($_ !~ /\.rtf$/);

    copy($File::Find::name, "C:\\testfiles\\$_") or die "Failed to cop
+y $_: $!\n";
    return 1;
}
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