I read the "Why I hate File::Find..." three times and adjusted my code and it seems to retain the var $size_input yet my array it not being populated. When I hard-code the number in, my array is populated as expected. I am almost begging for help b/c I cannot understand how to solve this anymore or what add'l tools to use other than Dumper and perl -d.

Please help on this frustrating code. Thank you in advance!

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use strict;
use warnings;

my ( @root_files, @large_files, %mounts, @mounts, ) ;
use vars qw/*name *dir *prune/ ;
*name   = *File::Find::name ;
*dir    = *File::Find::dir ;
*prune  = *File::Find::prune ;


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}
else {
    print "USING LAST ELSE\n";
    my $size_input = ( int 25 * ( 1024**2 ) ) ;
    $size_input =~ tr /\000//d ;
    my $wanted =  make_wanted ( \&wanted_1, $size_input ) ;
    File::Find::find( $wanted, $fs_input ) ;
    print "\n";
}

sub wanted_1 {

    for my $key ( sort keys %mounts ) {
        if ( $fs_input eq $key ) {
            @mounts =
                grep {$fs_input} @{ $mounts{$key} } ; ###-- HoA --###
        }
    }

    if ( scalar @mounts > 0 ) {
        die "cant search...foobarbazzzzy $!" ;
    }
    else {
        my ( $size_input ) = shift @_ ;
        print $size_input,"\n";
        my ($dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid) ;
        (( $dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid ) = lstat($_) ) &&
         ( $dev >= 0 ) &&
         !( $File::Find::prune |= ($dev != $File::Find::topdev ) ) &&
         ( int(((-s _) + 1023) / 1024 ) > $size_input ) &&
         push ((@large_files), $name ) ;
    }
}

sub make_wanted {

    my $wanted = shift ;    # get the "real" wanted function
    my @args   = @_    ;    # "freeze" the arguments
    my $sub = sub { $wanted->( @args ); } ;  # generate the anon sub
    return $sub ;           # return it
}


print "\n",scalar @large_files,"\n";
exit;
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$size_input is being printed correctly/accurately, but nothing in the array.