Thank you Discipulus and the Anonymous Monk(s).

I was at least able to comment the code as to what it was doing, and I only needed to make some slight modifications to my code to make it work as I Wanted it to work.

I'll just drop in the subroutine and make notes directly on it. 

sub parse_tree {
    # note:make sure trailing slash is removed from passed arg
    my ($root_path) = @_;

    my %root;
    my %dl;
    my %count;

    # This is the wanted for find.
    my $path_checker = sub {
      # grab item name
      my $name = $File::Find::name;

      # If directory -- 
      if (-d $name ) {

        # Assign current root hash as reference to r
        my $r = \%root;

        # hold the item in temp
        my $tmp = $name;

        # Remove the root path section of the file to get rid of the
        # first part of the path
        $tmp =~ s/^\Q$root_path\E//;

        # If a leading '/' is left, remove that.
        $tmp =~ s/^\///;

        # if the entry in the hash is undefined, create a new empty
        # hash from the splitted path of tmp.
        $r = $r->{$_} ||= {} for split m|/|, $tmp; #/

        # if $dl{$name} is undefind, the assign $r to $dl{$name}.
        $dl{$name} ||= $r;
        
      } elsif (-f $name) {
        # If $name is a file, find the directory path
        my $dir = $File::Find::dir;

        # increment the file count based on that directory.
        my $key = "file". ++$count{ $dir };

        # create a new entry in the hash
        $dl{$dir}{$key} = $_;
      }
    };
    find($path_checker, $root_path);

    return \%root;
}

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In reply to Re: Using File::Find to create a hash of directory structure. by AnaximanderThales
in thread Using File::Find to create a hash of directory structure. by AnaximanderThales

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