I am trying to pass a parameter outside of my loop but it says I can not do this. 
use strict;
my $mydir = "/path/paths";
my $bool = 0;
opendir(DIR, $mydir) || die "Can not open $mydir: $!\n";
while (my $file = readdir(DIR))
{
   if($file =~ /^myname\.doc$/i)
   {

         $bool = 1;
       
   }
}
closedir(DIR);

if($bool)
{
print "$file"; 
}

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My error message: 
Global symbol "$file" requires explicit package name at C:\Perl\bin\sc
+rp.pl line
 22.
Execution of C:\Perl\bin\scrp.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

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In reply to Passing value outside of loop by Anonymous Monk

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