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in thread How to make code smaller--saving steps and writing one liners

You are right, I was too careful here. The written contract (the File::Find documentation) explicitly states:

The above variables [$File::Find::dir, $File::Find::name, and $_] have all been localized and may be changed without effecting data outside of the wanted function.

Alexander

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