On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:49:37 -0600, Tom Carr wrote:
>Perl on a PC is different than mac perl. Not much different, but different
>enough to throw me for a few loops.
>
>I am using the File::Copy module in my app to copy a file from one directory
>to another directory in the mac app like this:
>
>use strict;
>use File::Copy;
>#-- make backup copy of original files
> copy(":oldFile.csv",":newFile.csv") || die "Cannot copy 'oldFile.csv':
>$!\n";
>
>This does not seem to work on the pc. I changed the colons to slashes to no
>avail. Is the File::Copy module a mac perl thing only?
No... it's that colon that trips you up. Er... ":oldFile.csv", is that
this file in the current directlory? So why is that colon there at all?
Otherwise, replace ":foo" with "./foo".
--
Bart.
