Re: New Perl-Installation on new OS X

[Wayne Brissette]

 I haven't followed all of this thread (it was digressing there for a while).
 Would perlbrew be a solution for the OP. I've only been using it a short
 while but it makes installing and using a custom perl very simple.

I installed the preconfigured version from active state recently and was 
pleasantly surprised at how it took care of pretty much everything. That might 
be another option for the original poster. 

Wayne

paths in Perl

[Wayne Brissette]

I'm new to writing perl and perl in Mac OS X, although I've had plenty of 
AppleScript experience. In fact, at one time, a lot of the Apple Support site 
relied on scripts I wrote to get data from point A to point B via AppleScripts 
I wrote. 

Anyhow, I'm playing around with reading in some static files in perl, what I've 
discovered is that if put the script in the same directory as the text file, it 
works properly. However, if I try to provide a path like: ~/Documents/log_files/

The script can't open the file. is there a trick in Mac OS X to do this that is 
outside the perl norm? 

Wayne