> > I want to determine if a particular exectuable file is
> > available/exists within the path. Is there a switch or function
> > available to with/instead of the -x test? I have an example to
> > illustrate the results of what I want to do with a simpler approach.
If you want it nicely packaged you may download File::Which from
http://Jenda.Krynicky.cz/perl/Which.pm
use File::Which;
print "Path to notepad is : ",which('notepad'),"\n";
it should work OK under Win32 and Unix (not tested under *nix
though). Under Windows it checks the system variable PATHEXT
for what is the local list of "executable" extensions.
Jenda
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