Hi Monks,

I am writing a script to open a file that contains a list of path to various files and open each file at the specified path. I have written a function that generates the file containing the path to the files. However, when I open that file to try to open the path of a file, my script is not picking up the entire path.

Example:

The file containing the paths is database.txt. Within database.txt are various paths such as C:\edman\file1.xml, c:\edman\file2.xml. note that each path is on a separte line in database.txt. When I open database.txt any try to read the path open file1 from the specified path, the $_ command only picks up c:\edman\fi thus causing the file not to be opened. Can any monk kindly help me solve this problem?. Pls see my code below.

$| = 1;
sub GenerateKeywordsDatabase
{
    print "\nDate: ".localtime(time)."\n";
    
    $kwords = $path."keywords_database.txt";
    $temp = $path."temp.txt";
    if (opendir (KWORDS, $path) && open(LIST, ">$kwords"))
    {
        print LIST "\n================================================
+================\n";
        print LIST "\nDATE:     ".localtime(time)."\n";
        print LIST "\nNAME:     ".$ENV{USERNAME}."\n";
        print LIST "\n================================================
+================\n\n";
        @kwds = sort grep {$_ ne '.' and $_ ne '..'} readdir(KWORDS);
        foreach(@kwds)
        {
            if($_ eq "database.txt")
            {
                print ("I can process $_, without calling GenerateTest
+File!!!\n");
            }
            elsif($_ ne "database.txt")
            {
                GenerateTestFileList();
                if (open(DBASE, $path."database.txt"))
                {
                    while(<DBASE>)
                    {
                        chomp;
                        open(TEMP, ">$temp") || die "cannot open [$tem
+p], $!\n"; 
                        print TEMP "$_\n";
                        open(XFILE, $_) || die ("Cannot open [$_], $!\
+n");
                        while (<XFILE>)
                        {
                            chomp;
                            #if ($_ =~ /\<name\>|\<\/name\>/)
                            #{
                                print (LIST "$_\n");
                                
                            #}
                        }
                        
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    die ("File does not exist, $!\n")
                }
            }
            
        }
    }
    else
    {
        die ("Could not open $path, $!\n");
    }
}
1;
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The GenerateTestFileList() function is used to generate the path to the various files I which to open. I have check the paths generated and the are all fine.

Thanks for your assistance.

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