Re: What is wrong with this code?

While only obliquely involved, Use strict and warnings.

Also, when running system commands on Win32, you have to quote paths in spaces. If I couldn't use any of the wonderful perl faculties to get a list of items in a folder, I'd have written $t = 'dir "C:\ProgramData\Test1\Test Folder"';, or renamed my target to not have spaces in it. :)

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Re^2: What is wrong with this code? by LanX (Saint) on Sep 08, 2014 at 13:21 UTC
Good catch! :) ... but shouldn't the failing path (ie w/o " Folder") be shown in the error msg ? At least in `$!` ? I have currently no win system to test.. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: What is wrong with this code? by jellisii2 (Hermit) on Sep 08, 2014 at 14:35 UTC
That would be the sane thing to do. On Windows 8: C:\>perl -v This is perl 5, version 16, subversion 3 (v5.16.3) built for MSWin32-x +86-multi-thread (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2012, Larry Wall Binary build 1603 [296746] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveSt +ate.com Built Mar 13 2013 11:29:21 Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License + or the GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki +t. Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found +on this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to + the Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa +ge. C:\>perl -e "print `dir \C:\Program Files`; print \"\nerror: $!\n\" " File Not Found Volume in drive C is Windows8_OS Volume Serial Number is 78A2-8234 Directory of C:\ Directory of C:\ error: C:\>perl -e "print `dir \"C:\Program Files\"`" Volume in drive C is Windows8_OS Volume Serial Number is 78A2-8234 Directory of C:\Program Files 07/08/2014 09:31 AM <DIR> . 07/08/2014 09:31 AM <DIR> .. [redacted directory list] 0 File(s) 0 bytes 45 Dir(s) 137,746,575,360 bytes free C:\> [download] Windows 7 does much the same. But you do bring to mind a good point: Is perl in the path?	[reply] [d/l]