Your question is a little vague. If you are trying to write you script so that other people can run the script on their computer without having to modify it, then you need to refer to the file by its network path. Instead of referring to the mapped drive name use the share name.

Example
'\\\\ComputerName\\DirName\\Filename' or
'//ComputerName/Dirname/Filename'

Here is some example code I tested on my computer of different ways to access the data.

#! /usr/bin/perl -w
#  Different ways to open file on another networked windows machine.
#  Assume: Other computers name is Zoe
#         The file is in the shared directory zoe_data\test
#         The directory zoe_data has been mapped localy to F:
#         The filename is test.txt 
@mypaths =     ( 
                '\\\\Zoe\\zoe_data\\test\\',
                'F:\\test\\',
                '//Zoe/zoe_data/test/',
                'F:/test/'
            );

$filename = "test.txt";

foreach $path (@mypaths) {
print "\n\nOpening file [", $path . $filename, " ]\n\n";
open (IN,$path . $filename) or die "can't open the file: $!\n";
print while (<IN>);
close (IN);
}

[download]

I hope this answers your question.
zzspectrez

In reply to RE: Perl and Shared drive by zzspectrez
in thread Perl and Shared drive by Anish

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.