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in thread odd behavior with DATA section

Thanks for the note on the File::Path. I meant for this to be a quick throwaway script, and knew that the Cygwin mkdir could do this pretty easily. If I had planned for something any more long term than throwaway I would have looked for a solution better suited to re-use. But nice to know what to look for, anyway.

I did change the script to output the line before the split, and the file and path after. The output is getting long:

LINE: ===filename1 some/file/path=== FILE: ===filename1=== PATH: ===some/file/path=== Made C:/Documents/perl/some/file/path Moved C:/Documents/perl/filename1.xls to C:/Documents/perl/some/file/p +ath LINE: ====== Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 15, <DATA> line 2. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 15, <DATA> line 2. FILE: ====== PATH: ====== Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 17, <DATA> line 2. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 23, <DATA> line 2. Filename is blank, filepath is [], line is [] LINE: ===filename2 some/other/file/path=== FILE: ===filename2=== PATH: ===some/other/file/path=== Made C:/Documents/perl/some/other/file/path Moved C:/Documents/perl/filename2.xls to C:/Documents/perl/some/other/ +file/path LINE: ====== Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 15, <DATA> line 4. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 15, <DATA> line 4. FILE: ====== PATH: ====== Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 17, <DATA> line 4. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 23, <DATA> line 4. Filename is blank, filepath is [], line is [] LINE: ===filename3 yet/another/file/path/oooh/this/one/is/long=== FILE: ===filename3=== PATH: ===yet/another/file/path/oooh/this/one/is/long=== Made C:/Documents/perl/yet/another/file/path/oooh/this/one/is/long Moved C:/Documents/perl/filename3.xls to C:/Documents/perl/yet/another +/file/path/oooh/this/one/is/long LINE: ====== Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 15, <DATA> line 6. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 15, <DATA> line 6. FILE: ====== PATH: ====== Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 17, <DATA> line 6. Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at C:\Docume +nts\perl\try.pl line 23, <DATA> line 6. Filename is blank, filepath is [], line is []
And no apparent answer jumps at me. Another good suggestion, though, and one I hadn't tried.