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in thread File Upload On Windows 8 and Perl

It sure did:

my $upload_dir = "\images-user";

Embedded backslashes need to be doubled:

my $upload_dir = "\\images-user";

Will continue checking but that one jumped right out at me.

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Re^6: File Upload On Windows 8 and Perl
by skosterow (Novice) on Jul 04, 2015 at 17:49 UTC

    when i change that i get a no such file or directory - I think it has to do with defining the string with a " and not a '.

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      DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!

      Messing around with backslashes requires detailed understanding of how they behave in both single and double quoted strings.

      If it is failing with doubled backslashes, that's a clue, because in double-quotes, that's the correct interpretation. So I am compelled to ask you to slow down to answer this one:

      What is the fully qualified path to the directory you want the download to wind up in?
      Not in PerlSpeak -- in ShellSpeak/CommandPromptSpeak.

      My gut still says this is a player in this drama -- we could be overlooking something really, really basic here.

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        okay fully qualified DIR for where the images should be placed: 

        C:\Users\scott\Web\TEC\images-user>

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        Where TEC is the ROOT for IIS (the site). :)

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