RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

December 28, 2005 3:48 PM To: Timothy Johnson Cc: beginners@perl.org Subject: RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena ok I will take that out I reran it and still get the same error. This is not the problem. Note: this is the correct way to do it within Unix. Derek B. Smith OhioH

RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

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RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

For starters, you aren't formatting your PATH variable correctly. That should be a semicolon before "C:\\Perl". -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 2:01 PM To: beginners@perl.org Subject: running a short

RE: running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : my $MHfile= qq(C:\\Documents*\\mh-hl7\\MHFM.*); Windows XP does not allow the asterisk in paths or filenames. This is not a valid filename. If the asterisks are supposed to be wildcards, perl will not expand them automatically. HTH, Char

running a short perl script in a windows XP arena

All, Here is my script and it is outputting "file is not present" when it should be outputting "temp file is good and $MHfile is there\n"; Am I missing something since I am running this is a Windows env? thank you, derek #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; require 5.8.0; $ENV{"PATH"} = qq