in reply to Re: Perl and Shared drive
in thread Perl and Shared drive

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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RE: RE: Re: Perl and Shared drive
by Anish (Novice) on Nov 07, 2000 at 02:20 UTC
    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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