Well, system returns zero unless the program completely fails to start when it returns a -1. So, zero would only be returned if successful, meaning that die will be called. You could always call the Perl function chdir instead of calling system, or you could call system like

system("cd C:\temp") == 0 or die "Error!:  $?";

If you choose the chdir route remember that if you want to keep what you have, the "\" character is the escape character, so Perl will interpret this as "C:<tab character>temp". You have two choices. The first is escape the backslash so it will look like

chdir "C:\\temp" or die "ERROR!: $!";

or ActiveState will accept "/" as the directory separator, so you could use

chdir "C:/temp" or die "ERROR!:  $!";

In reply to Re: Problem with system () by Steve_p
in thread Problem with system () by Anonymous Monk

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