At 12:08 PM -0500 4/17/02, Tom Carr wrote: >I wrote a simple perl script on macOS9.2 and want to move to an OSX box. >When I run it on the OSX box, my path syntax is not working. Is the path >syntax for OSX different than OS9? > >my $files_to_move = ':In'; #top level folder for search > >In this line, ":In" does not resolve. The "In" directory is in the same >directory as the perl script.
In OS X, Perl is uses the UNIX path separator, '/', instead of Mac's ':'. Also, paths are UNIX-style. If you use BBEdit, open the script or file in question, and get the path from the toolbar button. That'll give you an example to follow. HTH 1; -- - Bruce __bruce_van_allen__santa_cruz_ca__
