in reply to Perl and Shared drive

This simple example just worked for me on Win98: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

my @files = `dir \\\\MACHINE\\SHARENAME`;

foreach ( @files )
{
  print;
}
exit;

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RE: Re: Perl and Shared drive
by the_slycer (Chaplain) on Nov 06, 2000 at 22:42 UTC
    In my experience the above is the most reliable way to do this.

    $drive = "\\\\servername\\path"

    The quad backslashes being the key point here..
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      I tried this too.suppose my servername is nj7001pdcpublic, there is directory SAPTreasTeam. then there is subdorectory under SAPTreasTeam called swift. how would you access this in perl.
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        I'm assuming that by "directory" you mean "share". Try this: 
        open(F, '//nj7001/pdcpublic/saptreasteam/swift') or die $!;
# or
open(F, '\\\\nj7001\pdcpublic\saptreasteam\swift') or die $!;

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        If you're still having trouble accessing files with paths like this, perhaps you can take advantage of some Win32 modules to help you?
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