I think you may have misunderstood how File::Find works -- when you call the find method, it's going to call your (mis-named) search function for each file that it finds.

I would rename that function to storeFileHashValue to better reflect what it's actually doing. Then I'd move the declaration of %result into the file scope, and dump out the results of your file scanning after you call find.

So your code would look something like this: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use File::Find;
use File::stat;
use Digest::MD5;

my %result;

find(\&storeHashvalue, "/home/test/");

#  Dump out the result hash, sorting by the hash values.
foreach my $key ( sort keys %result ) {
  #  Dump out the array of filenames indexed by this hash value. We 
  #  could have sorted this list too if we wanted.
  foreach my $filename ( @{ $result{$key} } ) {
    print "$key -> $filename\n";
  }
}

sub storeHashvalue {
    #   Make sure we only look at files and end in src extn.
    if ( -f && /\.src$/i ) {
        foreach my $files ( $File::Find::name ) {
            open(FH, $files) or die "Can't open '$files': $!";
            binmode(FH);
            #   Get/Create MD5 for the file
            my $hashValue = Digest::MD5->new->addfile(*FH)->hexdigest;
            #  Store the filename, indexed by hash value, into an arra
+y. This
            #  allows us to store multiple files with the same hash va
+lue.
            push( @{ $result{$hashValue} }, $files );
        }
    }
}

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I haven't tried this. Last night I was at home. Right now I'm on the job.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

In reply to Re^5: Sorting an array of hashes and filenames by talexb
in thread Sorting an array of hashes and filenames by learningperl01

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