On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 16:47 +0100, brian54321uk wrote: > Just tested this out and unfortunately instead of dirname replacing > abc123, I get a .
That's because the dirname is a '.' Try: use Cwd; if( (my $dir = dirname( $file )) eq '.' ){ $dir = cwd(); } -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn "Where there's duct tape, there's hope." Cross Time Cafe "Perl is the duct tape of the Internet." Hassan Schroeder, Sun's first webmaster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/