I've looked at File::Recurse and File::Find, but they both don't seem to handle sub-directories as I'd like. What I'm looking for is a nested hash of the directory, its files and sub-directories. i.e. 
%result = ('top' =>[    file1,
                        file2,
                        file3,
                        subdir1 => [sub_file1, sub_file2],
                        subdir2 => [sub_file3, 
                                    sub_subDIR =>[sub_sub_file1]],
                        etc... ]);

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If the top directory is "home" and one of the subdirectories is 'user1', I would like be able to access the files as 
$result{'home'}[0]
$result{'home'}{'user1'}[0]
$result{'home'}{'user1'}[1], etc

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In reply to How do I get directory structure into a hash? by filmo

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