On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:04:28PM +0100, Eelco Alosery wrote:
> what is wrong whit thee's lines, if i run this, perl make's a directory
> testdir but it olso makes a file testdir/test.file.
> perl dus not make the file in the directory testdir.
>
> on the internet under unix it works fine but on my mac it make's a mistake
>
>
>
> $dir = "testdir";
>
> if (!-e "$dir") {
> mkdir "$dir", 0755;
> chmod 0777, "$dir";
> }
>
> if (!-e "$dir/test.file") {
> open(MAKE,">$dir/test.file");
> chmod 0766, "$dir/test.file";
> close(MAKE);
> }
>
On a Mac, the path separator is : rather than /. You can use File::Spec to
deal with file paths in a cross-platform compatible way.
Ronald
