Hello,

I am having a strange problem with Strawberry Perl and file paths. Here is a short script that exhibits the problem:

use strict;
use warnings;
use AnyDBM_File;
use POSIX;

my $table_path = shift;
my %hash_AB;

my $table_file = "$table_path\\tableAB.db";
die "$table_path not a directory\n" unless ( -d $table_path );
die "$table_file not found\n" unless ( -f "$table_file" );
tie( %hash_AB, 'AnyDBM_File', "$table_file", 1, 0 )
    or die( "open failed for $table_file: $!\n" );

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When running this in Strawberry Perl, I get the following output:

>perl dbmopentest.pl Y:\path\to\dbdir
open failed for Y:\path\to\dbdir\tableAB.db: No such file or directory

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... even though I would expect to get one of the previous errors if the path were bad. Yesterday I could have sworn that I got it working in Cygwin, but only when I specified an absolute path. Today I can't get it to work in Cygwin either. I need it to work in Strawberry Perl and not Cygwin because I am planning to distribute my project with Strawberry Perl.

If I change the direction of slashes, I can make this work on Linux with the same file path (it's on a network drive). But Windows doesn't like it. Is there anything I can do?

Thanks in advance for your help.

In reply to AnyDBM on Strawberry Perl: file can't be found by captainmikee

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