I should mention that it fails at the second die at "cannot open
directory: $dir - $!".

2011/3/28 Claus Kick <[email protected]>:
> Hello all,
>
> I am writing a small tool just to update contents of a couple of
> directories. The directories are just stored in a flat text file like
> this:
>
> d:\updates\Imports\MCM_Import_CSG\Config
> d:\updates\Imports\MCM_Import_CSV
> [...]
> f:\sap_import_prod\bin
>
> I figured, I just leave windows notation and then switch to proper
> notation before doing anything.
> Well, I did not get very far.
> If I do the following
>
> use Data::Dumper;
>
> my $list = "importe.properties";
> my @directories;
>
> my $file_types = ("bat|cfg|cmd|properties|pl|xml|xsl|xslt");
>
> open (FILE, "<".$list) or die "cannot open file";
> @directories = <FILE>;
> close (FILE);
>
> my @files;
>
> foreach my $dir (@directories)
> {
>        @files = undef;
>        chomp;
>        $dir =~ s/\\/\//g;
>        #if ($dir =~ /[A-Z]{1}:(.+)/)
>        #{
>        #       $dir = $1;
>        #}
>        print "DIR: ".$dir."\n";
>        opendir(DIR, $dir) or die "cannot open directory: $dir - $!";
>        @files = readdir(DIR);
>        closedir(DIR);
>        print Dumper \@files;
> }
>
> the script dies at the die with  - No such file or directory at
> importe.pl line 50.
>
> the directories are there, I manually copied each path from the
> windows explorer address bar.
> If I leave away the drive letter as in the commented out part, then I
> do not find the files on the other disk.
> I also tried using chdir($dir) and then chdir($Bin).
> This only works for the last entry in the list, for the rest, the
> script insists that cwd is still $Bin.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
> (This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread) on Windows 2003.
>
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