When I run my file opening perl script to open a Notepad text file, the interpreter's throwing the exception below, and I'm stumped as to how I can remedy this. Here's my source first:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# nlexample.plx
# The script opens a text file, reads it, prints a number and
# then each line within the file.
use warnings;
use strict;
use diagnostics;

open FILE, 'C:\Perl\Perl practice\test.txt' or die $!;
my $lineno = 1;

while(<FILE>)
{
   print $lineno++;
   print ": $_";
}
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Here's the text file:

One day you're going to have to face
   A deep dark truthfull terror,
And it's gonna tell you things that I still
   Love you too much to say.
####### Elvis Costello, Spike, 1988 #######

And the expected response:

1:One day you're going to have to face
2:   A deep dark truthfull terror,
3:And it's gonna tell you things that I still
4:   Love you too much to say.
5:####### Elvis Costello, Spike, 1988 #######

Problem:

1. Why is this exception occurring? Perl seems to be looking for the text file at the same location every time: how do I change this? Why is Perl looking for the test.txt file at this location? Must be a default setting.

I using DzSoft Perl Editor to write my dode, and running from by the DOS promted provided by the IDE.

Uncaught exception from user code:
No such file or directory at C:\DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS\RICHARD LAMB \L
+OCAL SETTINGS\Temp\dir11.tmp\nlexample.plx line 8
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Very odd place for Windows to look for the files, as there”¦s no such file as ”„dir11.tmp”¦ when I look through the directory structure in Windows Explorer. Grrr. ƒ¼

Windows seems to be looking for a temp file containing the perl source: what the hell is going on?!

Solution: Locating the test.txt file in local settings?

edited: Thu Jul 24 00:37:03 2003 by jeffa - code tags formatting

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