From: "Rosenstein, Leon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The code:
> #Ok we have renamed the files now we need to run the expand command:
> system("expand perfc009.DA_ %windir%\\system32\\perfc009.DAT") && die
> "no $!";
>
> and when I run I get it:
>
> C:\Perf>perl -w maintest.pl.txt
> Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 5.00.2134.1
> Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1990-1999. All rights reserved.
>
> Expanding perfc009.da_ to %windir%\system32\perfc009.dat.
> Can't open output file: %windir%\system32\perfc009.dat.
>
> no at maintest.pl.txt line 5.
>
> My first question is; did I do the right thing by putting a \ before
> the \ in the path?
Yes.
> My second question is whether or not the % sign is
> messing things up?
It seems the %variable% was not espanded to the path. What version or
Perl are you using? (run
perl -v
to find out).
It's safer to let Perl expand the variable:
system("expand perfc009.DA_ $ENV{windir}\\system32\\perfc009.DAT")
HTH, Jenda
P.S.: You should use something better than Notepad to edit your
scripts. And save them with .pl extension, not with .pl.txt.
See eg. http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
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