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Turning that into an iterator sounds like an interesting task, but it's hard to do without having code that actually runs. So your best bet for getting a complete solution is to provide a complete script that constructs such a tree structure, runs the sub against it, and compares the output to the desired result, preferably using Test::More or something along these lines.

I will be offline for a few days, if nobody else answers in the meantime I'll do it ;-)

If you just want to return some results from a sub and then continue running that sub, you can take a look at Coro, which allows you to do just that (or, to advertise my own modules, Perl6::GatherTake, which is just a nice wrapper around some Coro functions).

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by jryan (Vicar) on Jun 16, 2008 at 21:53 UTC
    Hmmm, thats fair. Give me a minute and I'll attach some code and some test files. Is there any easy way to attach a zip file here?
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      Here is some code I wrote back in 2001 that takes advantage of the fact that we can push onto an array we are currently iterating over. So it's called an infinite stream eh, cute name. Anyway this happily recurses a directory (or any other) tree. 

      my $root  = 'c:/somedir/';
my @dirs  = ($root);
my @files;

for my $path (@dirs){
    opendir ( DIR, $path ) or next;   # skip dirs we can't read
    while (my $file = readdir DIR) {
      next if $file eq '.' or $file eq '..';# skip dot files
      next if -l $path.$file;              # skip sym links
        if ( -d $path.$file ) {
            push @dirs, $path.$file.'/';   # add dir to list
        }
        else {
            push @files, $path.$file;    # add file to list
        }
    }
    closedir DIR;
}

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      Is there any easy way to attach a zip file here?

      No, you have to upload it somewhere else and link it here then.

      But first check if ikegami's solution works for you - if yes, no need to duplicate the effort.

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