[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Hallo!


Hello,

> I'm a novice Perl programmer. I want to make a subdirectory in the
> path: /data/home/collette/exponat. My code looks like this:
> 
> $invnummer = $FORM{'invnummer'};
> $path = "/data/home/collette/exponat";
> chdir(path);

         ^^^^
You are missing the dollar sign.  Check in the cuurent directory to see 
if it was created there.

chdir $path or die "Cannot chdir to $path: $!";


> if ($invnummer ne "") {


What if $invnumber has the value undef?

if ( length $invnumber ) {


> mkdir($invnummer, 0755) || die ("Cannot mkdir $invnummer $!");
> }
> The code doesn't seem to have any errors, but the subdirectory is 
> not created whenever I give in the invnummer.
> What could be the reason?




John
-- 
use Perl;
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fulfillment


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