Sorry for the trouble - I figured out the problem - the homedir and the dirs had a folder in between them... now, how do I delete a post...?

Wise Monks,

I bought a new computer, with Win7 Home Premium installed and then installed the latest ActiveState Perl. Now I'm trying to run a script that used to work on my WinXP box (with an older version of Perl).

It appears that my file existence check (-e) is failing, even though the files exist. Please help!

Searching for answers, I tried setting perl.exe as "Run as administrator" - still fails. I can't seem to locate anything here or on google. Does anyone here have any ideas?

ActiveState x64 v5.14.2.1402 

# @dirs = array of child directories
# $homedir = root directory where @dirs branches from
# $sourcefile = name of the file we're looking for in each directory

foreach my $dir (@dirs) {
  if (!-e "$homedir/$dir/$sourcefile") {
    print "file is missing: $homedir/$dir/$sourcefile\n";
  }
}

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What I get is a bunch of "file is missing" errors even though when I look at the locations, the required files are there.

In reply to -e check fails on existing files in Win7 - please help by Monknom

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