Hi Perl Monks

I have the following code looking for a given dir name eg P12345678 it does return the path if found but the problem I'm facing is that it doesn't find it and end the sub routine it just continues, the eventual location I'll be searching in once I get this program to work in the test location contains 10's of thousands of directories.

Once I get this working (With help from the mighty Monks), I'll then try to modify the code to get it to search for numerous DIR's via a .csv file

#!/usr/bin/perl
#FindDir
#Usage example - perl finddir P12345678
#Usage example - perl finddir D12345678

package finddir;
our $package = 'FindDir';

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Find qw(find);

#*****************Path Variables************************
our @RDDSpaths = ('C://Temp/hddzip/',
                );
             
our @NASpaths = ('C://Temp/Alcohol/',
                );
#*******************************************************

#Die if no parameters are given to the program
@ARGV or die "$package: no parameters given\n";

#Checking for valid dir name
our $DIR=shift;
chomp $DIR;
$DIR =~qr{^[LIDMP]\d{8}$} or die "$package: $DIR is not a valid Media 
+Identifier\n";

#Set variables
our $found = 0;
our $location = 0;

#If DIR starts with either I,D or M and has another 8 characters proce
+ss
if ($DIR =~qr{^[IDM]\d{8}$}) {
print "Searching for $DIR on NAS\n";

#Search NAS paths
find(\&wantedNAS, @NASpaths);
$found or print "Unable to locate $DIR in path";
if ($found != 0) {
    print "Found $DIR in $location\n";
    }

sub wantedNAS {
 return unless -d;
 $File::Find::prune = 1 if /[IDM]\d{8}$/;  # Don't recurse.
 print "$File::Find::dir/$_/\n" if /[IDM]\d{8}$/;
 if ($_ eq $DIR){
    #Store path location of DIR if found
    $location = $File::Find::name;
    $found++;
    #exit;
        }
    }
}
#Else If DIR starts with either L or P and has another 8 characters pr
+ocess
else    {
print "Searching for $DIR on RDDS\n";

find(\&wantedRDDS, @RDDSpaths);
$found or print "Unable to locate $DIR in path";
if ($found != 0) {
    print "Found $DIR in $location\n";
    }
    
sub wantedRDDS {
 return unless -d;
 $File::Find::prune = 1 if /[LP]\d{8}$/;  # Don't recurse.
 print "$File::Find::dir/$_/\n" if /[LP]\d{8}$/;
 if ($_ eq $DIR){
    #Store path location of DIR if found
    $location = $File::Find::name;
    $found++;
    #exit;
        }
    }
}
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