The find() subroutine has no way to pass information back out of it. Define a %hash with larger scope than the find() routine and have the find routine add hash keys,values to that %hash.

BTW:

my @ARGV ="C:/Main/work"; die "Need directories\n" unless @ARGV;
this makes no sense. @ARGV is a Perl defined array. It contains the command line arguments. This is not a thing for you to define as a "my" variable.
my $default_dir = "C:/Main/work"; if (@ARGV == 1) { $default_dir = shift @ARGV ) elsif (@ARGV >1) { die "too many command line args\n"; }; # $default_dir remains in effect if there was not # exactly one command line argument

In reply to Re: How to get file path into hash data structure. by Marshall
in thread How to get file path into hash data structure. by veerubiji

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