m.bedekar, as I said in the Chatterbox, not directly, but you can open the subdirectories as another filehandle (or even the same one if you do it recursively in a different scope) and read in the contents of that directory.

Since you didn't provide any code, I won't either, because I'm assuming that you know how to opendir() & readdir(). If you need more help, please give us an idea of what you've already tried. Take a look here: How (Not) To Ask A Question first/again too please. . .

- - arden.

ps. I left off mention about Find::File because you previously said it was too slow for your desires.