doh, that did it. thanks felix. -Ronnie
On 14 Jun 2002, Felix Geerinckx wrote: > on Fri, 14 Jun 2002 06:43:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronnie > Livingston) wrote: > > > Hi, I have a textfile with a list of gifs (ex. planet.gif, > > star.gif)and I have a perl program which grabs one of the > > filenames randomly. What I want to do is use the filename and > > copy it to random.gif but I keep getting the error: > > > > cp: cannot access planet.gif > > > > I have been using this in my perl program: > > > > `cp "$line" random.gif`; > > Did you chomp away the newline from $line, after you read it in from > the file? > > I usually use File::Copy to copy files. > > -- > felix > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
