The following scriptlet reads a list of directories for files in them, then "does stuff" with each file.   The "if (-d $_)" loop is *supposed* to detect subdirectories and add them back to the list of dirs to read.   In other words, drill down the directory structure and process every file in every subdirectory.

But it only processes the listed directories, not child subdirectories.

I thought I understood perlfunc:_X, push, and next.   What simple silly syntax am I doing wrong?   Perl 5.00503 btw.
    cheers,
    Don 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @dirs = (                   # omit trailing slash
   '/var/www',
   '/home/me',
   '/usr/games',
   );

for my $dir(@dirs) {
   opendir DIR, $dir           or warn "Error opening $dir:\n$!";
   my @infiles = (readdir DIR) or warn "Error reading $dir:\n$!";
   closedir DIR                or warn "Error closing $dir:\n$!";

   for(@infiles) {
      $_ =~ s/^(\.|\.\.)$//;
      if (-d $_) {
         push @dirs, $_;
         next;
         }
      # do stuff
      }
   }

for(@dirs) {
   print "    $_\n";
   }

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