On Oct 4, Chuck Belcher said: >I can now get the first part to open and read a file, however, It still >does not work when I am reading the directory. The print $file found in >$in_dir does work it displays a list of files in the directory. The open >(IN1, "<$file"); does not appear to open the files. I am loosing hair by >the minute.
You see that $file only holds the NAME (and doesn't need to be chomp()ed), but you need the PATH and the name. open IN1, "< $in_dir/$file" or die "can't read $in_dir/$file: $!"; -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
