RE: 'which' functionality in Perl

2003-09-27 Thread Randy Kobes
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Helen Bennett wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Behalf Of Dax T. Games > > Sent: 27 September 2003 22:10 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: 'which' functionality in Perl > > > > How would I determine if a fi

RE: 'which' functionality in Perl

2003-09-27 Thread Helen Bennett
Hi There is probably a module somewhere that does it.. but the following function works as well .. may need to clean up the items returned from path as they may have "\" on the end, butt still works. Helen sub which ( $ ) { my ( $file ) = @_ ; $path = $ENV{"PATH"} ; foreach $dir (split

RE: 'which' functionality in Perl

2003-09-27 Thread Messenger, Mark
Title: RE: 'which' functionality in Perl Which, along with many other *nix commands, is included in the Unix95 set.  I can email this to you, or you can get it from http://whizzmo.com/unix95.zip (~1meg zip file). -Original Message- From: Dax T. Games [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: S

'which' functionality in Perl

2003-09-27 Thread Dax T. Games
How would I determine if a file existed in a directory in the PATH environment variable on a Windows box with Perl. If the file exists I want to return the full path to the file. The functionality I want is similar to 'which' on Unix/Linux. Thanks, Dax __