On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Shinagare, Sandeep wrote:
> #snip1
> system ("copy c:\msg.txt c:\sandeep\msg.txt");
> #end
>
> which works fine. But how can i give it a dynamic file name say like...
>
> #snip2
> $vfilename="TestFile.txt";
> system ("copy c:\msg.txt c:\sandeep\$vfilename");
> #end
>
> this does not work (i mean it does create a file called $vfilename), but
> that is not what i want... It should create a file called "TestFile.txt"
>
> This is using Perl on Win-NT
You should use the File::Copy module for this. It has functions, cp (and
an alias called copy) that can do the file copy, and you have better
control over the error handling.
-- Brett
http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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