On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:25 AM, axr0284 <axr0...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am completely stumped with how to proceed with this.
> I have a program where the user inputs a path to a file. This is under
> windows xp
>
> The path can be relative
> ..\..\..\synthesis\int_code.psm
> .\program\synthesis\int_code.psm
>
> or absolute
> c:\command\tool\program\synthesis\int_code.psm
>
> I do not know what it is in advance.
>
> 1)I would need perl to be able to distinguish between a relative and
> absolute path
>
> 2) If the path is relative, create an absolute path from that.
>
> My orignal idea was to locate ..\ with regex using m/([.]{2}\\)/ This
> would indicate if the path is relative or not
>
> use cd to obtain the present working directory. Is there a better way
> to do this???
>
Take a look at the core File::Spec module, particularly the rel2abs() method.
HTH,
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