Yes, you are right. For some reason, there must have been another error
in my code. Thanks.
Tim
-Original Message-
From: Timothy Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 2:11 PM
To: 'T. B. Booher'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: chdir to parent
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 10:37:10AM -0400, Shishir K. Singh wrote:
> >chdir ("..");
>
> >chdir ("\\..");
>
> chdir ('..');
> chdir ('../');
>
> Use single quotes. so that special characters are treated as literals.
> "." and "\" are special characters. You escaped "\" but not "."
.. is not a s
Actually it does work. Try the following snippet of code. You will see
that it prints out the files in c:/program files and then changes back to
your c:/ directory. (you might want to try a smaller directory, but I
wanted to choose one that I knew you had).
chdir "c:/program files";
opendir(D
> "T" == T B Booher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
T> Hello - I am trying to use ActiveState perl on windows and I am trying
T> to figure out how to chdir to a parent directory. I have tried the
T> following:
T> chdir ("..");
This should work just fine. How do you know this one "didn't work
>Hello - I am trying to use ActiveState perl on windows and I am trying
>to figure out how to chdir to a parent directory. I have tried the
>following:
>chdir ("..");
>chdir ("\\..");
chdir ('..');
chdir ('../');
Use single quotes. so that special characters are treated as literals. "." an
