in reply to Problem - Recursive file find using File::Find

What you need is an iterator. Higher Order Perl - Iterators says some very interesting things in that respect.

For the time being however, you can perhaps use File::Find::Rule (rather than File::Find), which has a method match which returns after each file found.

CountZero

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