Thank you poj.

Just some questions....

Below, I declare my hashs and array (within the sub DirCompare)

  my ( %old_list, %new_list, @diffs);

Next line, I am looping through $ARCHIVE and reading files or files within folders into $file. This will continue until it reaches the top of the file list or parent directory. $file will then be passed into the hash %old_list

  for my $file ( find ( sub { %old_list { $file } = 1 }, $ARCHIVE ) );

Next line, I am looping through $SourceDir and reading files or files within folders into $file. This will continue until it reaches the top of the file list or parent directory. $file will then be passed into the hash %new_list

  for my $file ( find ( sub { %new_list { $file } = 1 }, $SourceDir ) );

The above statements are what I intended when I wrote the code. So my questions are, why do I need to declare the hashs and arrays when they are already declared? Does $file in the inner most brackets need to be '$_' or $file?

In reply to Re^4: Comparing files in directory by smturner1
in thread Comparing files in directory by smturner1

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