Monks, I need your help.
I am trying to open directories in a recursive function... somethings like that :

use strict;

my $dir = "/";
my $file;

sub openNewDir {
    $dir = shift;
    opendir (DIR, $dir);
    while ($file = readdir (DIR)) {
        if (-d $file) { openNewDir($dir.$file."\\"); } 
        else {
            # Do something with the file
        }
    }
    close (DIR);
}

openNewDir ($dir);

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But I quickly realyse that the HandleDir DIR is lost when the function is call for the second time.
So I try to replace DIR by "$dir$file" which is an unic ID. But the use strict give me an error message that I can't do that...
Why ? ... and What can I do instead of ?

Thanks for your help.

BoBiOne KenoBi ;)

In reply to Recursive opendir without by bobione

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