Re: using a CONSTANT as a pathname

[WC -Sx- Jones]

On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 05:22  AM, Kevin Pfeiffer wrote:

use constant CFG => qq|$ENV{'HOME'}/.get_quiz|;


Well, you could convert it back to a variable prior to use:

#!perl -w

use strict;
use diagnostics;
use constant CFG => qq|$ENV{'HOME'}/.get_quiz|;

my $whichfile = CFG;

open OFILE, ">$whichfile" or die "croak; Frogger died...";
print OFILE "Ribbit.";
close OFILE;
But my question is - how will you find it?  The file you've created is:

.get_quiz

And under Unix that is *considered* a hidden file name.  You would have 
to use

ls -ial

or some such to "see" it on the command line...

HTH/Sx

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