Re: Directory issue

2006-03-07 Thread Hans Meier (John Doe)
DiGregorio, Dave am Dienstag, 7. März 2006 19.30: > Ok, I am trying to run another perl script from a perl script and have > had little luck in doing so. The main script is in one directory and > the one it is controlling is in another directory. the main script > starts and calls the other scrip

Re: Directory issue

2006-03-07 Thread Jay Savage
and once again, I lament the lack of the list in the reply-to field... On 3/7/06, Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/7/06, DiGregorio, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I am trying to run another perl script from a perl script and have > > had little luck in doing so. The main scr

RE: Directory issue

2006-03-07 Thread Timothy Johnson
I hope you meant chdir("C:\\Go\\Here\\")... but if you're going to do use absolute paths anyway, why not just system("perl \"c:\\go\\here\\somescript.pl\"")... ? -Original Message- From: DiGregorio, Dave [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 10:3

RE: Directory issue

2006-03-07 Thread DiGregorio, Dave
: beginners@perl.org Subject: Re: Directory issue On 3/7/06, DiGregorio, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chdir("C:\Go\Here\") || die "cant not change dir\n" ; The backslash is Perl's general magic character. It always means that the next character is something special. A

Re: Directory issue

2006-03-07 Thread Tom Phoenix
On 3/7/06, DiGregorio, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chdir("C:\Go\Here\") || die "cant not change dir\n" ; The backslash is Perl's general magic character. It always means that the next character is something special. Anywhere in Perl, if you don't want backslash magic, if you intend a real b