Well I am still having trouble with syntax in Perl. I have tried writting this in several different ways but with no luck. I know that I could be using File::File or other methods but I learn nothing by stealing code. I have tried the C++ method, foreach and while loops.

The problem is that this code will work every now and again but most of the time it will loop on forever at the first end to a chain. I think a variable is not being cleared or something.

The code is as follows...

my $dir = "C:/"
sub recurseDir2 {
    my @temp = (glob @_[0]);
    foreach (@temp) {
        if (-d $_) {
            print "Directory: $_" , "\n" ;
            recurseDir("$_/*");    
        }else{
            if (-f $_) {
                print "File: $_ \n";
            }    
        }
    }    
}
recurseDir2($dir)

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So whats the problem with this one.

Thanks
Paul Neale

In reply to Recursive sub by pen

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