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Old 01-21-2010
running perl script problem
While executing perl scriptit gives some compling issue, please help out

Code:
$inputFilename="c:\allways.pl";
open (FILEH,$inputFilename) or die "Could not open log file";
 
Error : Could not open log file at c:\allways.pl line 4

learner in Perl
Last edited by pludi; 01-21-2010 at 12:25 PM.. Reason: code tags, please...
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Old 01-21-2010
When using double quotes, you have to use a backslash to escape another backslash if it's to be taken literally. The reason is that with double quotes, all kinds of stuff get interpolated, eg. you can use "\n" for a newline, "\t" for a tab, ...

2 ways to solve this:
  • write "c:\\allways.pl"
  • write "c:/allways.pl"
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