All I need to do is test to see if a file exists! Seems easy right? Well, apparently not. Below you will see a few things I have tried. The only thing that works is actually chdir()'ing to the directory (notice that took two chdir()'s to get there. When I was doing just one chdir() the script never warn()'ed it just never actually got to the desired directory. When I wrote code to actually do a listing (using readdir()) it was not in the destination directory that it said it was in...it was in the parent directory to that directory. I checked permissions, I checked to make the file actually existed, I think I have checked all but the one thing causing my problem...this is why I am here. 

    my $funcName     = (caller(0))[3];
    my $player_name  = shift;
    my $mapname      = shift;
   (my $gamedir      = &send(1,"sv_gamedir"))
                     =~ s/.*: (.*)\n+/$1/;
    my $full_path    = "$HOME/$gamedir/maps/$mapname.bsp";

#    chdir("$HOME/$gamedir") or
#        die("Cannot chdir to $HOME/$gamedir: $!\n");
#    chdir("maps") or
#        die("Cannot chdir to maps: $!\n");
#    print "Current working directory: " . getcwd . "\n";

    if ( -f $full_path ) {
        print STDERR "Map exists! -> $HOME/$gamedir/maps/$mapname.bsp\
+n";
        &send(0,"say Player name: $player_name map: $mapname");
    } else {
        print STDERR "Map does not exist! -> $HOME/$gamedir/maps/$mapn
+ame.bsp\n";
        &send(0,"say Requested vote for map $mapname denied: map does 
+not exist on this server");
    }

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- Jim

In reply to From chat to here :) chdir() and test -f issues. by snafu

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