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Put 'use diagnostics;' at the top of your code to get more info on errors.

Share the code and specific errors.  I suspect you're doing something like:

while () {
	$foo = $bar;
}

where you should have something like:

my ($foo, $bar);

while () {
	$foo = $bar;
}

> 
> 2-I also need to traverse a dir that itself contains dirs, processing
>  each file and dir. How do I traverse such a dir such that....when a
> dir is encountered it is entered and all the files in it are then
> processed, and if necessary drills down through other dirs [howto
> control depth ?]...before returning to the original dir that
> contained files and dirs ?

Perfect case for a recursive call.  Something along the lines of:

sub ParseDir
{

	my $filename = $_[0];

	if (-d $finename ) {
		ParseDir($filename);
	}
	.
	.
	.
}


-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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