It sounds like the environment under which your process is running doesn't have $ENV{"HOME"} defined (in other words the "HOME" environment variable isn't set). But it's hard to say because you didn't actually bother to explain what "it's not working!" means, so I can only guess. Did you get some error message that might mean something to one of us? Are you running under the "use warnings;" pragma so that if $ENV{"HOME"} is undefined you'll get a warning? That would be helpful.

Update: When I say "It sounds like the environment under which your process is running doesn't have $ENV{"HOME"} defined...", I'm saying that it's probable that your spawned process is running under a different environment instance (ie, as a different user). Thus, even though you think HOME is set, it's not set in the environment under which your job is running. Turning warnings on might tell you that the hash element you're looking for isn't defined. Now you know one possible reason why.


Dave

In reply to Re: Perl Environment Variable by davido
in thread Perl CGI Environment Variable by sasikumar

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