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I'm i setting the path right? This is what i have:

$mailprog='d:\WEBSVR\blat\blat.exe';

but i get an error that says "the system cannot find the
path specified"

Thanks for your help,
Kiko

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RE: Re: Mass Mail
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 13, 2000 at 12:29 UTC

    Ooops - how could that one have been missed... It's one of my favourite mistakes as well - Perl treats the "\" character as a special character for creating stuff like \n (newline) and \t (tab). To create an actual "\" in a string, you have to use "\\". So the correct statement would be :

      $mailprog='d:\WEBSVR\blat\blat.exe';
  warn "Couldnīt locate the mail program at $mailprog\n" unless -x $ma
+ilprog;

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    Update : chromatic told me that single quotes don't interpret the backslash - and he is right. My shell (bash played the nasty trick of interpretation on me, which is even more a symptom of my difficulties with backslash interpretation ;)

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      It's in single quotes, thus, there's no interpolation: 
      $ perl
print '\d\thi\n';
\d\thi\n[chromatic@firewheel ]$

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