Hi,
As I recall, if you do a perldoc on File::Find, it shows that the current directory will change as a file is found (unless expressedly requested otherwise), so you can just do an open($_) on the file name and it will work as expected. (Thus, your supposition is incorrect since you can change the working directory...)
Have a good one.


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Zak
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