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all works fine as a .pl

Prove it.

so error checking has nothing to do with this

Sure it does.

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Re^6: perlApp --gui and chdir
by diamondsandperls (Beadle) on Jul 01, 2012 at 22:35 UTC
    my apologies yes error checking on path would help the problem is after compiling finding the current user is failing

    my $olduserid = qx{whoami};
    chomp $olduserid;
    my ($userid) = $olduserid =~ /.*\\(\w+)/;

    my $path = "C:/Users/$userid/Desktop/";

    open to recommendations to determine current user bc after compiling my code is failing on path.
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      my apologies yes error checking on path would help the problem is after compiling finding the current user is failing

      So why not check for errors after qx{}?

      But you should use %ENV or File::HomeDir->my_desktop

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        use Win32; my $username = Win32::LoginName;
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