Good Evening experts,

I have a pretty simple question, but have not been able to find a solution, me being a newbie and all:(

I have a script that needs to be run on a windows machine and a Linux machine(without code changes).

I finished the part for windows, but I have the statement use Win32::EventLog; at the top of the code, and I get a compilation error when I run the script in Linux.

This is what I've tried to do to fix it,

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

my $OsDep = 'File::Copy';
if ($^O =~ /MSWin/i)
{
        $OsDep = "Win32\:\:EventLog";
}
elsif ($^O =~ /Linux/i)
{
        $OsDep = "File\:\:Copy";
}
else
{
        print "Please check documentation for Supported Operating Syst
+ems.\n";
}
use $OsDep;

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Once again please help me.

In reply to Common use statements for windows and Linux by dannyd

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