In the following code I hoped to use `use Cwd abs_path;' to not only produce the absolute path for a named directory but to die if it could not... thereby getting around having to test the named dir with -d ... to make sure it was really a directory in the fs.
It does not have that effect when a bogus directory is passed in, and, in fact, goes on to the chdir to find out its bogus. Why is that? ------- 8< snip ---------- 8< snip ---------- 8<snip ------- #!/usr/local/src/test/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Cwd 'abs_path'; my $tdir = shift; $tdir = abs_path($tdir) or die "Can't find <$tdir>: $!"; chdir $tdir or die "Can't chdir <$tdir>: $!"; print "Hello from $tdir\n"; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
