• "But even with this, do you really want to search all subdirectories of /tmp/dir1 with find()? "
    - Well, (he says hesitatingly) I think I do. What I do in my real script is have a hash tied to a part of the regex ($target in this script) that gets me closer to where I want to look($location) for the regex filename. Even then it has to search through several hundreds of files before finding the right one. When it finds the right file it captures the name and path for later use. Are you thinking I'm not using find() correctly?
  • "Or is -f "$location/target" what you want?"
    - I know for sure I don't want to include the $location in the $target on my command line. Part of my reason for using find() is to be able to find the path for me by descending in to directories. So my command line would be something like
    $ script.pl -f test.txt
    and the end result is where in the directory structure test.txt is located.
  • "Is "$target" supposed to be a regular expression?"
    - It's a regex.
  • "Or just the file basename (in which case you would want "if $_ eq $target" in the function)?"

    • In reply to Re^2: Adding a dispatch table and getting "Variable $x will not stay shared" errors. by gctaylor1
    in thread Adding a dispatch table and getting "Variable $x will not stay shared" errors. by gctaylor1

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