"$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Carl Jolley wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Steven Willard wrote:
> >
> > > I am running windows 2000 professional with perl AS 506. I installed
> > > Fileop, Lazy, Win32-api and Win32-abspath from Jenda's site. I created the
> > > following
> > >
> > > use Win32::FileOp;
> > >
> > > Copy ('e:\oldfile\test.txt' => 'e:\newfile\\');
> > >
> > > All paths exist and yet nothing happens when I run it inside CodeMagic.
> > > When I run it from the dos prompt, I get perl application errors.
> > >
> > > Can anyone provide some insight. I need to be able to copy files.
> > >
> >
> > Since you are escaping the last backslash why not the others?
>
> My first thought also, but what are the only two chars you escape inside 's?
> Answer: \ and ' So the last \ was to make sure the ' wasn't escaped by
> mistake. :) Personally I would use /s instead.
And personally, I would
use File::Copy; # portable!
copy('e:/oldfile/test.txt', 'e:/newfile'); # forward slashes
(Unless Win32::FileOp is being used for other reasons.)
And also use forward slashes as $Bill suggests.
And a portable method for determining an absolute path is:
use Cwd 'abs_path';
print abs_path('a/partial/path');
--David
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