On 11/3/07, AndrewMcHorney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Right now my code reads : > > @file_list = `cd c:\;dir c:/s`;
I think that's your problem: If you were to print that same string you've got in backticks... print "The command is: " . "cd c:\;dir c:/s" . "\n"; ...you would see that you're not asking for what (I think) you thought: The command is: cd c:;dir c:/s The backslash is always a magical character in Perl. Whenever you mean a real backslash, you have to type it twice. In this case, you got the "backslash-semicolon character", and since a backslashed punctuation mark is just the mark itself, that's just a semicolon. But no backslash. Hope this helps! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
