Depends where you are failing...
If you are failing to browse thru the directory, then here's the code. 
print_dir ( "YOUR/DIRECTORY/PATH" );

sub print_dir {
  my ($dir_name) = @_;
  opendir ( my $dir_h , "$dir_name")  or die "Unable to open dir :$dir
+_name: $!\n";

  while ( my $file = readdir($dir_h) ) {

     next if ( "$dir_name/$file" =~ /\/\.$/ or "$dir_name/$file" =~ /\
+/\.\.$/ );
     
     if ( -d "$dir_name/$file" ) {

       print_dir ( "$dir_name/$file" );
     }
     print "$dir_name/$file - "."\n";
  }

}

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It'll browse thru directories/sub-directories as well.
If you are failing to replace the carats, then this will help to find carats in a string 
my $string = "xyz^^ is strange";
print $string if($string =~ /\^\^/);

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Raghu

In reply to Re: Writing to file... by imrags
in thread Writing to file... by perl_n00b

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