#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Cwd;
       
opendir(DIR, ".");
@files = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
my $file;
my $i=0;
foreach $file (@files) {
        if ($file=~ /^(rs|rp|re|tv|pr|do)[0-9]{7}$/){$job=$file;
        print "$job\n";}#prints $job's value no problem       
       
        if (undef $job) {print "Job file not found! Check directory!\n
+";exit;}#passes this  

$cwd = cwd();
#my $job=$job;#just trying some stuff--
print $job."\n";#blank
print "$cwd\nrand can only be used in a 'projects' folder!\n";
if ($cwd !~ /\/script\/projects\/$job/){exit;}

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I get the use of uninitialized variable in the last line ($job) which doesn't make sense to me because I call it later on in the script, and it is there! Any ideas? TIA

In reply to foreach not a global variable? by jriggs420

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