From chdir:

If EXPR is omitted, changes to the directory specified by $ENV{HOME}, if set; if not, changes to the directory specified by $ENV{LOGDIR}. [...] If neither is set, chdir does nothing. It returns true on success, false otherwise. See the example under die.

So my (entirely uneducated) understanding is that

  1. On Windows, neither of the environment variables is likely to be set;
  2. Therefore, chdir without an argument does in fact do nothing;
  3. Therefore, chdir returns false;
  4. Therefore, you die.

As usual, I don't claim to actually know much if anything about Perl (I'm but a pony, after all!), and others will be able to provide more detailed answers.

In reply to Re: Changing path to home directory by AppleFritter
in thread Changing path to home directory by The_Last_Monk

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