Thank you all for your help. For some reason the ":" instead of "/" didn't
click, but I remember reading that, now. And, yes, I mistakenly sent this
post to the wrong list. Thanks for the heads up.
Mark Wheeler
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Wegner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: [MacPerl-Modules] writing file in wrong directory
> At 23:02 Uhr -0700 21.10.2002, Mark Wheeler wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Here is a quick one that confuses me. I am trying to open one file in the
> >cgi-bin directory, modify it's contents, then write the altered file to a
> >completely different directory (up one directory, then into another
> >directory). Here is the script:
> >
> >----------------------------
> >
> >
> >sub createpage {
> >
> >open (GETFILE, "<$pathtotemplatepage") ||die " $!"; # open .html
template
> >@contents=<GETFILE>; # read contents into array
> >$linenum=0;
> >close (GETFILE);
> >$lastline=$#contents;
> >for ($last=0; $last<$lastline+1; $last=$last+1) {
> > $contents[$last]=~s/:username:/$username/; #change
contents
> > }
> >open (WRITEPAGE, ">../clients/client1.html"); # write file to new
directory
> >print WRITEPAGE @contents;
> >close (WRITEPAGE);
> >
> >}
> >
> >
> >----------------------------
> >
> >Here is what I get. The original file (the .html template) is read fine,
> >altered fine, and written fine, except for two things which I think are
> >connected. The final file that is written, is written to the cgi-bin
> >directory (where the script is run), not the "clients" directory AND, the
> >name of the file is not "client1.html", but rather
"../clients/client1.html"
> >
> >What am I missing? Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >Mark
>
>
> You are on Mac OS Classic, right? So, one directory up and then down
> into the 'clients' directory would be
>
> "::clients:client1.html"
>
>
> Here's a brief reminder of the Mac OS Classic path specification rules:
>
> The path separator is a colon ':', not a slash '/'. A full path
> always begins with a volume name. A relative pathname on Mac OS
> Classic must always begin with a ':', except when specifying a file
> or directory name in the current working directory, where the leading
> colon is optional. If specifying a volume name only, a trailing ':'
> is required (otherwise its optional, but should be used to
> distinguish file from directory paths).
>
> The current directory is denoted by ':', one directory up would be
> '::', two directories up would be ':::' and so on.
>
>
> Btw, this list is for discussion about modules, not general (Mac-)
> Perl questions. So your question is better suited for the
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailing list (or maybe the
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> list).
>
> HTH,
>
> Thomas.
