Timothy Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> almost bottom posted: : (quote from below): "The file separator in perl is '/', not '\\'" : : That's not necessarily true.
Using '\\' as the file separator makes your script more platform dependent than using '/'. AFAIK, '\\' will not work in a unix or Mac environment where '/' will. To an advanced perl programmer you are correct, but to a beginner who cannot even post a proper message to a technical email list, it is poor advice. The only separator he needs to know about right now is '/'. Any other separator will force him to write OS specific software. That is generally a Bad Thing. : It depends on the module and the context. Many modules will : take the path in either format. In this case Perl was : interpreting their code correctly, because otherwise it would : not have given the error indicated by the OP. The code the OP gave did not compile. It was not the same code he was using to get the error he described. IMO, learning to copy & paste his scripts to technical email lists is the real important lesson the OP needs to learn. Much more important than the question he asked. When he can post coherent, well thought out questions the beginner will have more skills at hand to solve future programming problems. I chose to deliberately ignore his intentioned question and point out his syntactical errors in an effort to enforce why proof-reading posts before hitting send is so important. HTH, Charles K. Clarkson -- Mobile Homes Specialist 254 968-8328 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>