This qusetion is similar to one I had put here on friday. I'm trying to use file from sharedrive on my local network I'm using following code 
#! /usr/bin/perl
$drvSwift= "G:/directoryname/Swift";
open (IN,"<$drvSwift/filename") or die "can't open the file: $!\n";

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this works because my sharedrive is maped to G: on my PC, now I want to use sharedrive name instead, i.e $drvSwift="sharedrive/directoryname/Swift";so people who wants to use my code and have access to sharedrive, dont have to change the code to put in drivename to which this sharedrive is mapped to on their PC. but everytime they run it it points to that Sharedrive, Disregarding where this sharedrive is mapped to on thier PC.is it possible? if it is, what is the syntax?? Thanks for help.

In reply to Perl and Shared drive by Anish

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