Hi, I'm having difficulty coding a function in Perl and need some assistance. Here's the pseudo code for what I would like to achieve.

prompt user to enter a directory name
Check if directory name exists
If it does prompt user again and ask if the contents of the dir can be
+ overwritten.
If it can continue with rest of program 
otherwise loop round again asking the same questions and doing the sam
+e checks again . This bit may need to be run several times depending 
+on whether the user enters an existing dir or not.
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I'm struggling with the code for this. I've tried varoius things. The closest I've got is

use warnings;
use strict;
use Term::Prompt;
use File::Find;
no warnings 'File::Find';

sub Wanted;
my ($dirname,$ans);
$basedir="/dmp/backup";

        $dirname = prompt('e', 'Enter a dir name', 'e.g. regression-EO
+DDAY1', '','[A-Za-z0-9_-]+' );
        # Check whether the dir already exists
        if find(\&Wanted, $basedir)
        {
                $ans = prompt('y', 'That dir already exists, do you wi
+sh to overwrite the existing contents ?','[y/n]','n');
                if ($ans = 1) {
                        $dirname = prompt('e', 'Enter a dir name', 'e.
+g. regression-EODDAY1', '','[A-Za-z0-9_-]+' );
                }
                if find(\&Wanted, $basedir)
                {
                        $ans = prompt('y', 'That dir already exists, d
+o you wish to overwrite the existing contents ?','[y/n]','n');
                        if ($ans = 1) {
                                $dirname = prompt('e', 'Enter a dir na
+me', 'e.g. regression-EODDAY1', '','[A-Za-z0-9_-]+' );
                        }
                }
        }

sub Wanted
{
        my $dir = $File::Find::name;
        print if /$dirname/ ;
        return;
}
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It doesn't work. I'm fairly new to Perl and I suspect the code above reflects that ! This is on Unix (Solaris) . Any help is welcome

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