Rob Dixon wrote: > > I am sorry, but even that work around won't help. I have downloaded a copy of > Perl Express and I see that it is not running your script at all when you are > debugging. If you look in $0 you will see that it contains > > C:\Program Files\Perl Express\Debug\temp1.cgi > > so what is running is a different program altogether. Perl Express has copied > your source to its own Debug directory, heavily modified it to support its > debugging tools, and even renamed it beyond recognition. As far as I can tell > you don't stand a chance of getting this working under this debugger, sorry! > > At least it should work for your users.
I'm sorry for keeping changing my mind, but I am slowly learning Perl Express. The good news is that I have a solution for your problem. If you look in the Perl menu and click on the Execution Directory item you will see an option called Set Execution Directory by Active Script. Make sure this option is checked and Perl Express does a little magic (just a chdir presumably) to make the program run in the right context. Now you can write my $fil = 'pdef.txt'; open my $defile, '<', $fil or die "Couldn't open pdef file - $!"; and the data file will be found correctly. Just as it always would have been before for anyone not using a debugger! HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
