Re: Checking to see if file exists.

2008-07-30 Thread John W. Krahn
tvadnais wrote: I am totally confounded by what appears to be a bug in the "does file exist" functionality. Here is the code as it stands now: my $tmpfile = substr ($file, 0, index($file, ".pgp")); I would probably do that like this instead: ( my $tmpfile = $file ) =~ s/\.pgp\z//; print c

RE: Checking to see if file exists.

2008-07-29 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 19:49 -0700, tvadnais wrote: > Oops, thank you for catching that... I haven't gotten that far in my > debugging. > > Unfortunately, my problem was with the "if (-e $filename)" always returning > false. In the code I'm testing, I have the pgp commented out, because I > can't

RE: Checking to see if file exists.

2008-07-29 Thread tvadnais
se pgp can only be run by root. Thank you, Tim -Original Message- From: Mr. Shawn H. Corey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: Checking to see if file exists. On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 19:06 -0700, tvadnais

RE: Checking to see if file exists.

2008-07-29 Thread Mr. Shawn H. Corey
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 19:06 -0700, tvadnais wrote: > Here is the true code if that helps: > I've tried: > > foreach my $file ( @currset ) > { > my $tmpstr = substr ($file, 0, index($file, ".pgp")); > print ("trying to delete $tmpstr \n"); > ## pgp will core dump if there's already an unen

RE: Checking to see if file exists.

2008-07-29 Thread tvadnais
e), (-e "F0715PAY.TXT") <--- This is the only one that worked. Here is the true code if that helps: ... Thanks, Tim -Original Message- From: tvadnais [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:00 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: Checking to see if

RE: Checking to see if file exists.

2008-07-29 Thread tvadnais
, "$HSTdir/$file"); } else { my $msg = LogMsg (MSG => "The call to PGP failed on file: $file", Echo => $debug); EmailNotice(LIST => [$file], DEBUG => $debug, MSG => $msg, WHO => [EMAIL PROTECTED]); $notice .= "T

Re: Checking to see if file exists.

2008-07-29 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:32 PM, tvadnais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am totally confounded by what appears to be a bug in the "does file > exist" > functionality. > > > > Here is the code as it stands now: > > my $tmpfile = substr ($file, 0, index($file, ".pgp")); > > print cwd(); ## d