Hi, you can very well try the following
$x = ENV{'PWD'}; this reads the present working directory from the $PWD environment variable. On Feb 7, 6:59 pm, pouliakh...@gmail.com (Pouliakhina) wrote: > Hello, > > I try to write the name of the current directory in $x: > > $x = system ("pwd"); > > But it doesn't work. It also doesn't work in all these combinations: > > $x = 'system("pwd")'; > $x = system("`pwd`"); > > Can You help me to write the result of 'pwd' in $x? > > Thank You, > Irina -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/