In our discussion last week Re^6: Installing a config file during module operation of how to install a config file during module operation, xdg provided this solution: 

> perl -MWin32=CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA -le "print Win32::GetFolderPath(CSI
+DL_LOCAL_APPDATA)"
C:\Documents and Settings\DGolden\Local Settings\Application Data

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This works on my system as well, but I'm having trouble translating that to code inside a program. Consider this: 

my $realhome;
if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
  use Win32 ('CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA');
  $realhome = Win32::GetFolderPath('CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA');
}
(defined $realhome) ? print "realhome:  $realhome\n" : print "\$realho
+me not defined\n";

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This is generating a warning, then producing an answer suggesting that the CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA constant was not, in reality, imported: 

Argument "CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA" isn't numeric in subroutine entry at im
+port.pl line 9.
realhome:  C:\Documents and Settings\kbuser\Desktop

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I'm puzzled about the "isn't numeric" warning: As I understand it, it's not supposed to be numeric because it'a a path (and I double-check Microsoft's information http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/enums/csidl.asp on this).

What am I not getting? Thanks.

Jim Keenan

Update:Corrected typo in title.

In reply to Win32 CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA by jkeenan1

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