Ben writes..
>I still have a mystery however. When I run the following command:
>
>perl -e "print '*:'.Win32::GetLongPathName( my
>$p=Win32::GetFullPathName(qq(/PROGRA~1))).';;;';"
>
>Then I get the expected output, which is something like:
>*:C:\Program Files;;;
>
>However, If I remove the "my $p=" from the above command, that is:
>perl -e "print '*:'.Win32::GetLongPathName(
>Win32::GetFullPathName(qq(/PROGRA~1))).';;;';"
>
>Then I get a syntax error. The message is: "usage:
>Win32::GetLongPathName($pathname) at -e line 1.". I don't see why I am
>getting the error, and I'd rather not define the dummy
>variable $p. Can
>anyone explain why I am getting this error?
GetFullPathName can be called in list and scalar contexts. The dummy
scalar assignment forces a scalar context, without that it assumes list
context. This works
perl -e "print '*:'.Win32::GetLongPathName(
scalar Win32::GetFullPathName(qq(/PROGRA~1))).';;;';"
(paste back together)
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Jason King
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