puchku has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i am trying to call a perl script from vb and i found a sample code that mentioned path name and file name of the called program(in this case perl)

file name should be the path where my perl program is residing.....so my question is what will be the path name for perl??

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Re: path name & file name
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 11, 2013 at 07:52 UTC

    pathname would be the path to where the file resides, while filename would be the name of the file itself.
    Just as the name implies.

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Re: path name & file name
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 11, 2013 at 07:49 UTC
    What does that mean?
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