Hello Monks,

Yesterday, I was so glad to get the first part of a script up and running with your help, that i just left home without testing to see if the program would work if made into a loop. 

#!usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @cmd=qw(lpr -S SYSTEMX -P QGPL/SPYVIEW -o l C:\\ABCDEFGH.txt);
system(@cmd)==0 or die "cannot do this";

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This now works fine.But if i put it into a loop,to do the same action with all the files in a directory, the script exits saying it cannot open $file for reading.Any idea why this is happening? I must have made some stupid mistake that eludes me.Could anyone help? 
#!usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @files=<c:\\ascii\\*>;
foreach my $file(@files){
my @cmd=qw(lpr -S SYSTEMX -P QGPL/SPYVIEW -o l $file);
system(@cmd)==0 or die "cannot do this";
}

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Is there a problem with the system command that it won't run in a loop or is there anything else I have made a mistake with?

Thanks , -Sandhya

In reply to system commands aren't working as a loop. by smanicka

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