Thanks a lot guys, I got my problem solved after long search on Google. Th error message about the "Can't cd to (C:/) System Volume Information: Permission denied" was because there is a volume partition in case of NTFS not allowed to access by anyone. The rest ofthe program run fine i can find the string i was looking for. Regards Manoj
________________________________ From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 12/28/2005 1:05 AM To: Charles K. Clarkson; beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: file :: find problem First of all, you're assuming a context that may or may not be there. You're assuming that the OP is creating a script that can be used on multiple operating systems, regardless of the file separator. In any case, it's good advice to use the '/' separator wherever possible, but to tell someone that the file separator in Perl is '/', not "\\" is wrong, and in fact there are many Win32 modules out there that require the use of the backslash as a file separator. As to the issue of posting code that is not the same code that generated the error (and in fact does not compile), of course that was an egregious error on the OP's part, but if you're going to volunteer your time to help beginners, why not actually say something helpful? If you had just said what you meant, you wouldn't have ended up giving the beginner wrong information. -----Original Message----- From: Charles K. Clarkson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 6:03 AM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: file :: find problem Timothy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> almost bottom posted: : (quote from below): "The file separator in perl is '/', not '\\'" : : That's not necessarily true. Using '\\' as the file separator makes your script more platform dependent than using '/'. AFAIK, '\\' will not work in a unix or Mac environment where '/' will. To an advanced perl programmer you are correct, but to a beginner who cannot even post a proper message to a technical email list, it is poor advice. The only separator he needs to know about right now is '/'. Any other separator will force him to write OS specific software. That is generally a Bad Thing. : It depends on the module and the context. Many modules will : take the path in either format. In this case Perl was : interpreting their code correctly, because otherwise it would : not have given the error indicated by the OP. The code the OP gave did not compile. It was not the same code he was using to get the error he described. IMO, learning to copy & paste his scripts to technical email lists is the real important lesson the OP needs to learn. Much more important than the question he asked. When he can post coherent, well thought out questions the beginner will have more skills at hand to solve future programming problems. I chose to deliberately ignore his intentioned question and point out his syntactical errors in an effort to enforce why proof-reading posts before hitting send is so important. HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Mobile Homes Specialist 254 968-8328 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
