Okay, I think this should not be too tough, but I am really messing it up. I have a directory with multiple subdirectories and files therin. Inside each of those subdirectories, I have even more files and subdirectories, ad nauseam. Each time is see a file, I want to sent it to a new subroutine.

The problem is I am not able to navigate through the different subdirectories at all, so I only pull out the top level of files. I am basically opening the parent, reading everything into an array, and testing to see if it is a directory or a file.

If it is a directory, I want to open that file up and look inside. I thought that I could call the same subroutine from itself to continue the navigate down, but I can't seem to get that part working. This is what I am doing so far: 

sub readindirs {
    my ($dirname) = @_;
    opendir(NEWDIR, $dirname) or die $!"; 
    @newfiles = grep { $_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..' } readdir NEWDIR; 
    closedir NEWDIR; 
    $length = scalar(@newfiles);
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
    if (opendir(DIR1, $newfiles[$i])) {
    #this is where i want to re-call the sub
       &readindirs($newfiles[$i]);
    } else {
        &parse_sub_routine
    }
    }
}

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I thought I could do this and think that the problem may be in the reassign of the directory handle, but after trying a few workarounds, I am a little stumped. Any advice/jeering would be appreciated. Thanks a lot.

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