Actually I had forgotten the additional back slashes when I generalize the name. So the problem still exists.
Thanks DRD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Phoenix Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 1:48 PM To: DiGregorio, Dave Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Directory issue On 3/7/06, DiGregorio, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chdir("C:\Go\Here\") || die "cant not change dir\n" ; The backslash is Perl's general magic character. It always means that the next character is something special. Anywhere in Perl, if you don't want backslash magic, if you intend a real backslash character, use two of them. A single backslash is always magical. (In fact, you've backslashed the closing quote mark!) If you need two real backslashes, as in some Windows pathnames, use four of them in your source. Is that what you needed? Good luck with it! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
