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 special character in
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 directory
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. . and \
are
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?
--
Randal
