RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

2005-12-29 Thread Timothy Johnson
To: Timothy Johnson Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena ok I will take that out I reran it and still get the same error. This is not the problem. Note: this is the correct way to do it within Unix. Derek B. Smith OhioHealth IT UNIX / TSM / EDM

RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

2005-12-28 Thread Charles K. Clarkson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : my $MHfile= qq(C:\\Documents*\\mh-hl7\\MHFM.*); Windows XP does not allow the asterisk in paths or filenames. This is not a valid filename. If the asterisks are supposed to be wildcards, perl will not expand them automatically. HTH,

RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

2005-12-28 Thread Timothy Johnson
For starters, you aren't formatting your PATH variable correctly. That should be a semicolon before C:\\Perl. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:01 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: running a short perl script in a

RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

2005-12-28 Thread DBSMITH
RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena