Hi ArifS,

There are a number of problems with your code that would have been shown to you had you started your program off using strict and warnings. There is a function provided by File::Spec::Functions named catfile, which will put the proper separator between your directory and file. I'd also suggest using the 3 argument version of open along with a lexical variable instead of a bareword "INPUT". Example changes shown below along with use of Win32 GetFolderPath to use the Desktop as the target directory:

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Spec::Functions;
use Win32 qw(CSIDL_DESKTOP);

my $directory = Win32::GetFolderPath(CSIDL_DESKTOP);
my $file      = "my log file.log";
my $path = catfile($directory,$file);

open my $input, '<', $path or die "Can't open INPUT: $!";
my @lines = <$input>;

print "I have access to the folder\n";
close $input;

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In reply to Re: Access given folder to parse a file by Loops
in thread Access given folder to parse a file by ArifS

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