holli wrote:

The good new first: The program runs fine on my system (XP, AS Perl 5.8.6)

I'm using Win2000 Pro, Active Perl 5.8.7. I don't think that should be the source of the problem.

The return value of GetFolderPath is a path. The CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA is a numeric constant that tells the function which path to return.

Okay, but that doesn't solve the mystery as to why it's not returning the same path that the command-line invocation did.

Note that code in the style of if ($something) {use Some::Module;} does not DWYM. use is a compile time statement. There are some nodes about conditionally loading modules at runtime here.

Correct, but I got the same results using require: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Exporter qw(import);
my $realhome;
if ($^O eq 'MSWin32') {
    require Win32;
    import ('CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA');
    $realhome = Win32::GetFolderPath('CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA');
}

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jimk

In reply to Re^2: Win32 CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA by jkeenan1
in thread Win32 CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA by jkeenan1

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