I'm having some difficulty with capturing the info contained in $0 when using ActiveState Perl under Windows.

The environment:

Perl Version: v5.8.4 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
Binary build 810
Built Jun 1 2004 11:52:21

PerlApp Version: 6.0.1 build 138990

OS: Microsoft Windows XP Version 5.1.2600

The script I'm using to reproduce the problem: 

use Cwd;
use FindBin qw($RealBin);

$this_proc = $0;                                  # Get name of this p
+rogram
$this_proc =~ s#.*\\##;                           # Just the name.ext
$this_proc_path = $0;                  # Dir. path
$this_proc_path =~ s#$this_proc##;
$this_proc = $0;                                  # Get name of this p
+rogram
$this_proc =~ s#.*\\##;

$this_proc =~ s/\.pl//ig if ($this_proc =~ /\.pl/);
$this_proc =~ s/\.exe//ig if ($this_proc =~ /\.exe/);

printf("\$this_proc: $this_proc\n");
printf("\$this_proc_path: $this_proc_path\n");
printf("\$RealBin: $RealBin\n");

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Now, when I run the script (p.pl), I get the expected output, viz: 

    $this_proc: P.PL
    $this_proc_path: C:\tmp\
    $RealBin: C:/tmp

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However, when I use PerlApp from the Perl Development Kit, I get the following output: 
    $this_proc: p
    $this_proc_path: 
    $RealBin: C:/tmp

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The command line I use to invoke PerlApp is: 

perlapp --norunlib --clean --force --exe p.exe --perl C:\Perl\bin\perl
+.exe p.pl

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Is there a reason as to why the output is different... or should this be considered a bug? I remember reading there was a problem with build 804 (I think) but I don't know if it's supposed to be resolved.

Thanks.

John

In reply to Problems with Contents of $0 when using ActiveState PerlApp by ozboomer

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