in reply to How to get file path into hash data structure.

The find() subroutine has no way to pass information back out of it. Define a %hash with larger scope than the find() routine and have the find routine add hash keys,values to that %hash.

BTW:

my @ARGV ="C:/Main/work"; die "Need directories\n" unless @ARGV;
this makes no sense. @ARGV is a Perl defined array. It contains the command line arguments. This is not a thing for you to define as a "my" variable.
my $default_dir = "C:/Main/work"; if (@ARGV == 1) { $default_dir = shift @ARGV ) elsif (@ARGV >1) { die "too many command line args\n"; }; # $default_dir remains in effect if there was not # exactly one command line argument

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Re^2: How to get file path into hash data structure.
by veerubiji (Sexton) on Dec 14, 2011 at 17:15 UTC

    Hi Marshall, Thanks for your reply and suggestion. I tried as you said as shown below

    #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use XML::Simple; use Carp; use File::Find; use File::Spec::Functions qw( canonpath ); use Data::Dumper; my %hash; my $default_dir = "C:/Main/work"; if (@ARGV == 1) { $default_dir = shift @ARGV ) elsif (@ARGV >1) { die "too many command line args\n"; }; find( sub { return unless ( /(_service\.xml)$/ and -f ); Hash_information(); return; }, @ARGV ); sub Hash_information { my $path= $_; my $xml = new XML::Simple; my $data = $xml->XMLin("$path", ForceArray => [ 'Service','SystemReact +ion','SW','HW','Component' , 'BM'],); return; }

    I don't know how to add file path to hash? and also you suggested me define one hash with larger scope so I defined one hash and I don't know how to store this $data into %hash. Can you help me. Don't hesitate me I am new to perl.

      Ok does this make sense?:
      #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use XML::Simple; use Carp; use File::Find; use Data::Dumper; my %hash; my $default_dir = "C:/Main/work"; if (@ARGV == 1) { $default_dir = shift @ARGV ) elsif (@ARGV >1) { die "too many command line args\n"; }; find (\&process_file_name, $default_dir); # find() will start at the $default_dir # and call process_file_name for each file or # directory that it finds at or "beneath" the # $default_dir sub process_file_name { my $current_file = $File::Find::Name; #$File::Find::name is the complete pathname to the file. return unless (-f $current_file and $current_file =~ /_service\.xml$/); # we are at a data file (not a directory) # and this file name ends in _service.xml process_the_file ($current_file); } sub process_the_file { my $file_path = shift; ...open the $file_path ...figure out what you want from that file... ...$hash{$file_path} = "some data"; # this is how the data is "returned" # %hash has "global scope" # add an entry to %hash instead of # returning a value from this sub ...close the file }