How about this OO approach:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

package MyCwd;
use Cwd;

sub cd
{
 warn "must assign to something!\n" if !defined(wantarray);
 my $class = shift;
 my $new_dir = shift;
 my $self = cwd;
 chdir $new_dir;
 bless(\$self, $class);
}

sub DESTROY
{
 my $self = shift;
 chdir $$self;
}

"that's it!";

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And then you'd use it like this:

package main;
use MyCwd;
use Cwd;

print cwd, "\n";

if (1)
{
 my $cwd = MyCwd->cd('..');
 {
  my $cwd = MyCwd->cd('..');
  print cwd, "\n";
 ]
 print cwd, "\n";
}

print cwd, "\n";

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Every time you construct a new MyCwd, it remembers where you were. When it goes out of scope, it changes back.

update: Separated demo code. Added check for call in void context.

In reply to Re: local scoped cwd by bikeNomad
in thread local scoped cwd by Anonymous Monk

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