Hi, This is my first time using perl, I've written a script that uses File::find to gather all directories in a tree and store them to file, then a hash. Each time the script runs it compares the current structure with the prior structure and makes the two hashes values at created/deleted. The directory name is the hash key btw. I'm trying to reduce excess results I get when there has been a directory name changed with multiple subdirectories. Can I use a regex to do this? 
i.e. 
previous run
C:\1\2\3\4
C:\1\2\3
C:\1\2
current run
C:\1\x\3\4
C:\1\x\3
C:\1\x

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At the moment this would generate 3 directories created and 3 deleted. I'd like it to be able to tell that just x may have been renamed or moved, including all its sub directories. 
   foreach $node (keys(%current)) {
      if ($current{$node} eq "created") {
         foreach $node2 (keys(%prior)) {
            foreach ($node2 =~ m/\/.+(\S)/) {
               if (($node =~ m/\/.+(\S)/) eq ($1)) {
               ($current{$node} = "unknown"), ($prior{$node2} = undef)
+;
}}}}}

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That's some code that really doesn't work but might give you an idea of what i'm trying to do. Cheers.

In reply to Comparing strings to reduce excess results by grub_

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