Hi Monks,

I need help with this snippet of code : 

my ($oldpath, $newpath, $line);
open (WORKFILE, "c:\\temp\\work.txt");
while ($record = <WORKFILE>) {
   $oldpath = "c:\\olddir\\$record";
   $newpath = "c:\\newdir\\$record";
   rename("$oldpath", "$newpath");
}
close(WORKFILE);

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Basically, it is reading a text file containing lines of file names. As I read the list, I would like to move them to another directory but somehow, it doesn't seem to be working.

If I replace the "rename" with "print", the correct "oldpath" & "newpath" is displayed, which means that the variables have been correctly assigned and the path & file names are correct. But it just doesn't rename/move.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks !

In reply to Not renaming/moving files by ranciid

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