OK. So I hav made headway. I am now using Archive::Zip. I have been able to add the files in the local directoy to the archive, but have not been able to add a subdirectoy in the current directory to the archive. Here is the code I have. Any assistance?

sub compress {
   @add_array=@{ $_[0] };  
   $obj = Archive::Zip->new(); # new instance
   foreach (@add_array) {
      $obj->addFile($_); # add files
   }
   if ($obj->writeToFileNamed("$ZIP") != AZ_OK) { # write to disk
      print "Error in archive creation!";
   } 
   else {
      print "Archive created successfully!";
   }
}

opendir(DIR, ".");
@files = grep(/^AAA_/,readdir(DIR));
closedir(DIR);

push(@files,"./support");  # <== Seems not to be working

compress(\@files);
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