Hello,

I am having trouble getting the following to work. Here is what I am doing,
I have a sub that searches for logs files in a directory that always start and end with 08 and 00.

I then open each one of the files and look try to match another string using regex.

Once the second string is matched I save that string to a variable, split it on : and save the 2 part to an array.

Now using the contents in the second array (@spt1) I want to search for those files names in another directory. The problem is that the $spls variable when printed in the sub wanted does not print anything.

So my question is how do I use the contents of foreach $spls in the "sub wanted" subroutine?

Thanks for the help in advance! sample code. 
sub search {
    if ( (-f) && /08\..*00$/ )
        open the file
        while ( $line  = <open log file> ) { 
            if ( $line =~ m/regex/ ) {
                @spt = split(/\:/, $line);
                push(@spt1,@spt[1]);
                foreach $spls (@spt1) {
                    find(&wanted, $seek_path, $spls);
                    sub wanted {
                        print $spls;
                   }
               }
           }

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In reply to How to pass a variable to a subroutine by learningperl01

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