Hello guys,

I have a strange issue with my code that I cannot really understand.I've written a code that searches a given string in all the files in given directory.So far so good.The program works only if I type the directory where the script is.If I choose another directory I get the msg "Couldn't open that file perl_ex1.pl: No such file or directory at ex1.pl line 20, <STDIN> line 2." for example and that file obviously exists in the given directory. Any clarification would be useful.

Here is my code: 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;


print "Write the directory where you want to search:  \n";
my $dir=<STDIN>;
chomp $dir;
print "Write the string you want to search for:  \n";
my $string=<STDIN>;
chomp $string;

opendir DH, "$dir" or die "Couldn't open that directory $dir: $!";
while($_=readdir(DH)){
    next if $_ eq "." or $_ eq "..";    
    if (-d $_){
    print "$_ is a directory\n";
    next;
    }
    open FILE, "$_" or die "Couldn't open that file $_: $!";
    for my $i (<FILE>){
      if($i=~/($string)/){
         print "I have found |$string| in |$_| file on line:\n$i\n"; 
          last;
  }
 }    
}

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In reply to Perl script does not work on other directories? by Anonymous Monk

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