If you are using ActiveState Perl, you can create a "drop target" using the following steps:

  1. write your script and save it (for this example, I used the following code: 
      #!perl -w

use strict;

open(OUT, ">>drop.txt") or die "Could not open drop.txt";

my $time = scalar localtime;
print OUT $time,"\t";
print OUT @ARGV,"\n";
close (OUT);

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    and named it drop.pl
  2. change to the directory where your script is located and use the pl2bat.bat script to "convert" your script to a .bat file. i.e. cmd> pl2bat.bat drop.pl
  3. on the desktop right click and choose new->shortcut and create a shortcut to your .bat file.

now you can drop files on the new shortcut (.bat file) icon and it will use the full path as an argument. I tested this on my win2k box, and when I cat the drop.txt file, I get the time and the name of the full path as expected. YMMV.

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In reply to Re: Drag and drop to a perl source file. by hiseldl
in thread Drag and drop to a perl source file. by thunders

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