Part of the piece of code I'm working on involves getting a list of valid directories from the user. The problem that I'm having is this...
The code below works, but I get a error message stating. 
Variable "@dirlist" will not stay shared at test.pl line 17.
Variable "@dirlist" will not stay shared at test.pl line 24.

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Where/how do I declare that variable to avoid that warning? If I place the "my @dirlist" within the "getAns()" sub, it redeclares the variable and erases any information that was added. If I leave it out of that sub, I get that warning.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @dirs = &getDirs();

sub getDirs() {

    my @dirlist; # PROBLEM!!!
    sub getAns() {
        print qq(Enter a valid directory: );
        chomp(my $ans = <STDIN>);
        if ($ans ne "") {
            if ($ans =~ m/foo/g) {
                push(@dirlist, $ans);
                &getAns;
            } else {
                print qq(That is not a valid directory!\n);
                &getAns;
                }
            } else {
                return @dirlist;
            }
        }
    }

    my @dirs = &getAns();
    
    if (@dirs) {
        return @dirs;
    } else {
        die qq(No directories have been entered!\n);
    }

}

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Thanks in advance for the help,
Rich36

In reply to Where to declare? by Rich36

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