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Old 02-07-2008
Thakns this worked!!!

Is there any simple method to do to parent directory.
similar to "cd .."??
Quote:
Originally Posted by MobileUser
Hi,
It should work fine. I tried the following...

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# Program to accept a file path and store it in a array

my $dir = "/abc/def/ghi/";

my @Dir = split(/\//, $dir);

pop(@Dir);

my $PreviousDir = join("/", @Dir);
print "The original Directory is $dir\n";
print "The new Directory is $PreviousDir\n";

 

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