your search() function is quite broken. Let me rewrite a bit of your code and make comments:

my $myfile = ">mytext.txt";
open(FILE, $myfile ) || "can not open: $!\n";
# please do not quote "$vars"
# $ perldoc -q 'quoting.*vars'
my ($fil,$dir) = (0,0);

sub search {
    return if /^\.+$/ or /^ws_ftp/i;
  # i don#t know what the broken syntax ala
  # ($_ != /../) should mean, but it was nonsense
  # see perlop for '=~' and perlvar for $_

  # the return statement is important
  # exiting from sub via next is bad and you'll get
  # warnings

    if( ! -l and -d _ ){
       # the _ filehandle is described in `perldoc -f stat`
       print FILE "\n\nDIRECTORY\t\t$File::Find::name\n",
         ("-" x 20) , "\n";
       $dir++;
    }
    else {
       print FILE "$_\n";
       $fil++
    }
}

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consider reading about perlstyle, perloperators, perlsyntax and control statements, perlsubroutines, and of course on the 'strict' pragma and on the -w switch (perlrun) and the 'warnings' pragma.

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In reply to Re: Fetdching filenames starting numbers. by fruiture
in thread Fetdching filenames starting numbers. by Anonymous Monk

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