I'm having a problem executing code based on the result of a simple file test (-e) of a file I know exists.

if (-e "/music/data/$ArtistName/$cdTitle/$Cover") {
print(qq{<p><img src='/music/data/$ArtistName/$cdTitle/$Cover' alt="$A
+rtistName-$cdTitle" style="height:240px;width:240px;padding-right:100
+px;float:right"><br clear="right"/></p>});
}

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I'm running on an iMac with Apache set up correctly as far as I know - all other scripts work. However the Apache error log tells me this: Cannot serve directory /Users/user/Documents/httpd/public/local/music/data/Ahmad Jamal/Digital Works/: No matching DirectoryIndex So it seems perl interprets the variables up to 'Digital Works' and stops there. It doesn't seem to even see $Cover, and is therefore looking for an 'index.html'. And yes, $Cover is assigned earlier to a file that does exist in the directory. I'm stumped after trying to get this to work, so could someone shed some light on this please?

In reply to Odd behavior of file test by Trudge

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