Ok, so you do want to descend into sub-directories. But File::Find doesn't easily let you stop searching when you've found your file, so you could either use something like File::Next, or wrap the call to find() in an eval {} block, and die when you've found the file. Something like:
eval { find(sub {
  ($foundfile = $File::Find::name) if $File::Find::name =~ $target;
  die "FoundFile" if $foundfile;
}, $location) };
die $@ if $@ and $@ !~ /FoundFile/;

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In reply to Re^3: Adding a dispatch table and getting "Variable $x will not stay shared" errors. by runrig
in thread Adding a dispatch table and getting "Variable $x will not stay shared" errors. by gctaylor1

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