G'day smturner1,

The code you posted should be giving warnings about my $ARCHIVE = ... appearing twice in the same scope. E.g. 

$ perl -Mwarnings -e 'my $x = 1; my $x = 2;'
"my" variable $x masks earlier declaration in same scope at -e line 1.

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So, either that's not your actual code or you're hiding messages from us. Does autodie, for instance, provide feedback you're not showing?

You should check the File::Spec documentation. Your catpath() code does not match the documented syntax, i.e. 

$full_path = File::Spec->catpath( $volume, $directory, $file );

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See join for placing dots between your values.

Use a print statement to see the actual value of $ARCHIVE before calling make_path().

-- Ken

In reply to Re: Why can't I create a directory with File::Spec by kcott
in thread Why can't I create a directory with File::Spec by smturner1

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