On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Conor Lillis
<conorlil...@angloirishbank.ie> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> if you type set at the command line what value do you get returned for the
> env variable "temp" ?
>
> It may be set to the 8.3 format , particularly if someone had to manually
> set it to be this value. I have had to do this previously where installation
> kits could not work off the "c:\documents and setting\.." setting for %temp%
> due to not dealing correctly with the spaces in the returned text.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Regards,
> Conor Lillis
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> Tobias Hoellrich
> Sent: 14 April 2009 00:50
> To: gai...@visioninfosoft.com
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> Subject: RE: $ENV{'temp'} returns result in dos 8.3 format
>
> Take a look at “perldoc Win32” and specifically Win32::GetFullPathName. No
> idea if it’ll help in your case, but it’s worth a try.
Perhaps Win32::GetLongPathName would do what you want:
my $tmp_short = $ENV{TMP};
print $tmp_short, $/;
my $tmp_long = Win32::GetLongPathName($tmp_short);
print $tmp_long, $/;
prints out
C:\DOCUME~1\Kobes-R\LOCALS~1\Temp
C:\Documents and Settings\Kobes-R\Local Settings\Temp
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best regards,
Randy
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