Re: paths in Perl

[David Cantrell]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:27:54AM -0400, Wayne Brissette wrote:

> Anyhow, I'm playing around with reading in some static files in perl, what 
> I've discovered is that if put the script in the same directory as the text 
> file, it works properly. However, if I try to provide a path like: 
> ~/Documents/log_files/
> 
> The script can't open the file. is there a trick in Mac OS X to do this that 
> is outside the perl norm? 

Using ~ as a shortcut for your home directory is a shell-ism, perl
doesn't handle it.  Replace it with $ENV{HOME}, or if you want your code
to be portable to non-Unix platforms, use the File::Homedir module.

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