Greetings All -

I am having some difficulty with a module that is using File::Find. The method is below.

The idea is to feed FindPath a file name and directory so that all occasions of $file_name are pushed into @a_files. This works fine until I need to use FindPath again during the same session. What I'm finding is that even though @a_files looses scope within FindPath itself, it does not in ProcessFile. In other words, if FindPath returns and it is called a second time within the same session, @a_files is an uninitiated array in FindPath. However when ProcessFile is called, @a_files has retained the values it had from the last call to FindPath.

Am I making sense? Well here is what it looks like having been stripped down to the bare essentials.

From a .cgi file - 

use FileMan;
use Cwd;
my $fileman = new FileMan;
my $first_path = $fileman->FindPath('file1.txt', cwd);
my $second_path = $fileman->FindPath('file2.txt', cwd);

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In FileMan.pm 
sub FindPath
    {
    #- Var Declaration And Initialization 
    my ($hr_self, $file_name, $file_path) = @_;
    # Array to fill with file paths
    my @a_files = ();

    # Search file_path for the file
    find(\&ProcessFile, $file_path);

    #- The Subroutine To Process Files And Directories 
    sub ProcessFile
        {if ($_ eq $file_name){push (@a_files, $File::Find::name);}}

    # Return the paths found
    return @a_files;
    }   # end FindPath

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In reply to Confused scoping while using File::Find by rongoral

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