Can anyone tell me why I ran out of memory when I ran this code. It is a simple directory search that starts off where you are and searched to the end of that directory. However, when I ran it, it gave me an illegal operation error and said that I was out of memory. I believe the problem is in the @ARGV statement in the first sub function. Any clues?

#!/usr/bin/perl -ws

use strict;
use Cwd;

my $mode;

&op;
&scandir("C:/mydocu~1");

sub op
{
    if (defined (@ARGV) $ARGV[0]=~/-all/)
    {
        $mode="all";
    }else{
        $mode="";
     }
}

sub scandir
{

my ($workdir) = &scandir;
my ($startdir) = &cwd;

chdir($workdir) || die "Unable to change to $workdir: $!\n";
opendir(DIR, ".") || die "Unable to open $workdir: $!\n";
my @files = readdir(DIR) || die "Unable to read $workdir: $!\n";
closedir(DIR) || die "Unable to close $workdir: $!\n";

foreach my $file (@files)
{
    next if ($file eq ".");
    next if ($file eq "..");

    if ($mode eq "all")
    {
        if (-d $file)
        {
            &scandir;
            next;
        }

        if (-f $file)
        {
            if($file =~ m/\.\d+\w+\-\d+\wm$/i || 
                $file =~ m/\.log$/i)
            {
                unlink($file) || warn "Unable to delete: $file: $!\n";
            }else{
                print "No files to delete!\n";
                 }
        }
    }
    elsif ($mode eq "")
    {
        if(-d $file)
        {
            &scandir;
            next;
        }

        if (-f $file)
        {
            if($file =~ m/\.\d+\w+\-\d+\wm$/i)
            {
                unlink($file) || warn "Unable to delete: $workdir\/$fi
+le: $!\n";
            }else{
                print "No files to delete!\n";
                 }
            }
        }
      chdir($startdir) || die "Unable to change to $startdir: $!\n";
    }
}

&scandir(".");
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Thanks in advance curtisb -- "Be careful what you wish for, it may come back and bit you in the ass!"

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