The first line of code you show (from File::DirWalk) leaped out at me as being wrong. 

opendir my $dirh, $path || return FAILED;

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To avoid operator precedence problems (see perlop), this should be written as: 

opendir my $dirh, $path or return FAILED;

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or 

opendir(my $dirh, $path) || return FAILED;

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Also note that this provides no feedback on why opendir failed.

I thought I'd give your code a try and installed File::DirWalk. During the make test phase, I received the same errors (at the same line numbers) you're reporting but the output showed testing was successful. 

t/1.t .. 1/3 readdir() attempted on invalid dirhandle  at /Users/ken/.
+cpan/build/File-DirWalk-0.3-mt7jiA/blib/lib/File/DirWalk.pm line 100.
closedir() attempted on invalid dirhandle  at /Users/ken/.cpan/build/F
+ile-DirWalk-0.3-mt7jiA/blib/lib/File/DirWalk.pm line 117.
t/1.t .. ok   
All tests successful.

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At this point, I decided not to test your code with a module which did not install cleanly.

I had a look at File-DirWalk reviews. These are generally negative.

I'd suggest using File::Find. Callbacks are available through The wanted function. It's also a core module so no installation is required.

Not directly related to your problem but I'd recommend taking a look at File::Spec. This is also a core module and provides functions which will allow you to avoid hand-crafting non-portable code such as: 

$currdir = dir(split("/[\\\/]", $currdir));

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: Problem with File::DirWalk and Active Perl by kcott
in thread Problem with File::DirWalk and Active Perl by Anonymous Monk

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