Perl Win32::AdminMisc::SetEnvVar Problem

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm intending on using a Perl script to make permanant changes to an environment variable that points to a config file on Windows XP. Here's a test code to see if the procedure works:

#Environment Variable Change Script
use Win32::AdminMisc;
$ESYCFG="C:\\ESY\\esy.cfg";
Win32::AdminMisc::SetEnvVar("ESY_CONFIG", "$ESYCFG", ENV_USER, 10);
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Should make ESY_CONFIG set to C:\ESY\esy.cfg, right? If I just put C:\\ then the variable is successfully updated to C:\, but if anything is written past the \\, the interpreter crashes! Have any ideas?

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Re: Perl Win32::AdminMisc::SetEnvVar Problem by ambrus (Abbot) on Mar 11, 2004 at 20:24 UTC
Someone else seems to have the same problem too: see this mail message.	[reply]
Re: Perl Win32::AdminMisc::SetEnvVar Problem (alternatives) by tye (Sage) on Mar 12, 2004 at 03:11 UTC
You can use (tye)Re: SysEnvAdd.pl. CleanPath is also a good example. - tye	[reply]