Hello,
I am currently posting information from a file to the web, but I am now trying to get the information from a file in a different directory then my perl script. I need to first change directory to the home directory and then change directory to the directory where the file is located but am unsure of how to do this so far I have 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

my $directory = './mydirectory';

chdir($directory) || die "Fail to change directory: $!\n";

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I keep getting fail to change directory. I'm trying to change the directory before I access the file is this correct ? Thanks for the help in advance!

Formatting and code tags added by davido to match author's intent.

In reply to How do I change directory to root directory by kdelph

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