Steves I hope you are there! I complety understand what are you saying? I have added shift to @directory but it only copies one file???? so you are right!! how could I recode this script so it looks at every directory contain within the array. Any suggestions??? I'll appreciate your help. 
#! perl -w

use strict;
use File::Find;
use File::Copy;

my $infile  = 'c:/doclist1.chr';
# my $outfile = 'c:/doclist1.txt';

   open IN, "<$infile"  or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
#   open OUT, ">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $!"; 
   
   while(<IN>) {
   chomp;
   
   my @fields = split /,/;
   my $path_str = $fields[6];

   do { warn "Empty field 7"; next } unless $path_str;

   my @path = split /\\/, $path_str;
   
   # assuming you want to remove a few directories
   my @directory = join "\\", @path[0,5,6];

   my $srcfile;
   my $dir = shift @directory;

    sub process_file
{
    if ($File::Find::dir ne $dir)
    {
        $File::Find::prune = 1;
        return 0;
    }

    return 0 if ($_ !~ /\.rtf$/);

    copy($File::Find::name, "C:\\testfiles\\$_") or die "Failed to cop
+y $_: $!\n";
    return 1;
}

find(\&process_file, $dir);

    
     # print OUT "\n@directory";
     
}
exit;

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