Laudetur, monks. My problem is: In a given tree of subdirs, on the lowest level there are files, on other levels there aren't. In every subdir on the lowest level I'd like to select a certain file (newest from a certain type) and not process the others.

Now I've written a script, using File::find, which uses last to skip checking other files once I found one, thus skipping to the next directory. I think there are more elegant and/or efficient ways to this, I don't like using last.

Please share your thoughts. Thank you.

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Find;

my $dir = "d:\\Teszt";

finddepth(\&gotcha, $dir);

sub gotcha {
    if ($dir eq $File::Find::dir){
        print "same dir, skipping\n";
        last;
        }
        else {$dir = $File::Find::dir;}        
    if (-f) {print "$File::Find::name\n";
            &process_files_in_subdir()
        }
}
sub process_files_in_subdir {
; #whatever
}

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In reply to File::find hack by nemesdani

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