For a temporary file, you'd want to use the File::Temp module (see
http://search.cpan.org/~tjenness/File-Temp-0.16/Temp.pm ).
For a permanent file, such as a configuration file, you'd probably
have to figure it out for each operating system, and then test $^O to
figure out which operating system you're running under. Each OS is
different in where different kinds of files should be stored.
On Jul 13, 2006, at 12:40 PM, Nishi Bhonsle wrote:
Hi:
If I have to create a writeable file say write.txt on fly during
program
execution under the OS default/local drive of a machine ie C:\ or D:
\ on
windows and /home/user etc on unix, how can I get that local/
default drive
using perl so that I dont have to hardcode C:\ or D:\ or /home etc
inside
the script as path to the write.txt.
Thanks much.
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