I accidently wrote the below code which embeds a subroutine inside a subroutine. To my surprise it worked fine. It had't even occurred to me that this would be legal code and I could think of no reason to do it.

Ok I thought that's interesting but it must be in some way bad and I want it to look more normal so I'll remove the embedded sub. But whenever I seperate the below into 2 subs @files is out of scope in sub FileName. So I need a way to pass @Files to sub FileName. Sub FileName is being called recursively by find, I tried find (\&FileName(\@files),"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/service/"); but got a is not code ref error.

I've never been much good at recursion so some advise would be appreciated

GOT Sub in Sub

use File::Find;

sub Get_Saves {
    my @files;

    sub FileName {
        unless (($_ eq "." )or ($_ eq "temp.svd")){
        push @files, $_;
    }
    
    }##END FileName

    find (\&FileName,"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/service/");
    return  \@files, $#files+1;

}##END Get_Saves

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Want 2 separate subs

sub Get_Saves {
    my @files;
    @files=find (\&FileName(/@files),"/usr/local/apache/htdocs/service
+/");
    return  \@files, $#files+1;
}##END Get_Saves

sub FileName {
    unless (($_ eq "." )or ($_ eq "temp.svd")){
        push @files, $_;
    }
return @files;
}##END FileName

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In reply to Sub in a Sub & Recursion by hakkr

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