Monks, as most of you probably already know, the might of Find::File legendary, but for me it has proved itself a disobedient and unruly servant. It does what I ask it, but carps and barks, late into the night, scaring the wife and children.

Legend has it that helper herbs such as File::Find::Rule and merlyn's File::Finder, or even Find::File alone but with judicious closures, can be used to tame this imp. But so far these have failed me, for my powers of comprehension are weak and the day has been long.

At any rate, here is my working code. It works, but with a warning I can't figure out how to get rid of. Can someone show me how to get this done without warnings, prettily, and robustly? More than one way is welcome.

Thanks for your help. 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use File::Find;

my $dir = shift or die "bitte html suchen/ersetzen verzeichnis eingebe
+n\n";
opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "html suchen/ersetzen verzeichnis existiert 
+nicht: $dir";
closedir(DIR);

#works, but with warning:
#Variable "@myfiles" will not stay shared at fileFindTroubleshooting.p
+l line 34.
my @files = get_files($dir);

foreach (@files) {
    print "file: $_\n"

}

sub get_files {
    my $directory = shift;    
    opendir (DIR, $directory) or die "couldn't open directory: $direct
+ory";
    
    my @myfiles;
    my @directories_to_search = ("$directory");
    
    find(\&wanted, @directories_to_search);
    
    
    
    sub wanted { 
        my $name = $File::Find::name;
        if ( $name =~ /html$/i && ! ( $name =~ /\.backup\.before/i ) )
+ {
            $name =~ s|\\|/|; # substitute forward slash for back slas
+hes, icky but don't know a better way.
            #print "name: $name\n";
            push @myfiles, $name;
        } 
    } # end sub wanted
       return @myfiles;
}

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