in reply to searching multiple directories for one file

#!f:/perl/bin/perl.exe use strict; my @directories = qw( c:/temp f:/temp ); my $searchFile = 'seaBiscuit.fil'; foreach my $directory ( @directories ){ opendir ( DIRHANDLE, $directory ) or die "$directory not found\n"; foreach my $directoryFile (sort ( readdir ( DIRHANDLE ) ) ) { if ( ( $directoryFile cmp $searchFile ) == 0 ) { print "\nThe file I was looking for is $directory/$directo +ryFile\n"; exit; } } } print "\nI was unable to find $searchFile.\n"; exit;



Chris
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