I am writing a program on a win32 system to navigate a Byzantine subdirectory structure.

I am including features so you can search by text or regular expressions. Then it would either jump to the directory if it’s your only match or give you a list to select from.

I have everything working except I can’t change the directory on exit of the program.

Here is what I have tried

chdir("c:\\");    #Doesn't Work
system("cd c:\\"); #Doesn't Work
system("start cmd -k c:\\"); #Works but opens a new command com up. Un
+wanted!

[download]

I have read that perl restores the path it was executed from on exit.

Is there any way to force it to not restore or restore the path I want??

In reply to Controlling the directory location on exit. by Three

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.