steve silvers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> open(FILE, "d:\path_to\textfiles\test.txt") or die "Can't open $!"; So, um, you do know that \t is a tab in double-quoted text? Try: open(my $file, "d:/path/to/your/test.txt") or die("Can't open: $!") or: open(my $file, "d:\\path\\to\\your\\text.txt") or die("Can't open: $!") HTH, Ricky _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs