Perl chdir problem

[johntology]

Hello,

I'm having a tough time using chdir in different versions of perl in a dos window (XP). In early versions of Perl 5.x it works just fine. I have a bat file that dynamically sets my perl path to either 5.0.x or to 5.8.8:

path %path%;c:\perl\[whichever]

Then in I call the perl script which just has this:

[code=perl]
$dirLocation ='c:\[whatever]';

chdir $dirLocation or die "Can't cd to $dirLocation: $!\n";

[/code]

In the earlier version of perl it works fine and moves dos to that directory. In 5.8.8 it doesn't. But nor does it die. It just doesn't switch directories. I've confirmed that it's at least looking for a valid dir by changing $dirLocation to something nonexistent and it does indeed then balk. So what am I missing here???

Thanks for any help.

John

[numberwhun]

Hello,

I'm having a tough time using chdir in different versions of perl in a dos window (XP). In early versions of Perl 5.x it works just fine. I have a bat file that dynamically sets my perl path to either 5.0.x or to 5.8.8:

path %path%;c:\perl\[whichever]

Then in I call the perl script which just has this:

[code=perl]
$dirLocation ='c:\[whatever]';

chdir $dirLocation or die "Can't cd to $dirLocation: $!\n";

[/code]

In the earlier version of perl it works fine and moves dos to that directory. In 5.8.8 it doesn't. But nor does it die. It just doesn't switch directories. I've confirmed that it's at least looking for a valid dir by changing $dirLocation to something nonexistent and it does indeed then balk. So what am I missing here???

Thanks for any help.

John

If I may ask, how do you know that it is not working, especially if you get no errors?

Regards,

Jeff

[eggi]

Hi,


Try:
chdir("$dirloca tion");

, Mike

[KevinADC]

Hi,


Try:
chdir("$dirloca tion");

, Mike

adding quotes around a single scalar will not help and should really never be done anyway. It's a bad habit to get into when writing perl programs.

[johntology]

If I may ask, how do you know that it is not working, especially if you get no errors?

Regards,

Jeff

Jeff, DOS should change to the directory specified in the perl command. In my case it doesn't. It just stays where it was before running the script. Thanks.

[numberwhun]

Jeff, DOS should change to the directory specified in the perl command. In my case it doesn't. It just stays where it was before running the script. Thanks.

I would definitely go with eggi's suggestion of using the chdir() function to change the working directory and see if that works then.

Regards,

Jeff

[sakurakun]

Try using a forward slashes instead of a backward slashes
in your path.

Regards,
Sakurakun