Hi.. I need to know why is this code is not working. I am on Perl 5.14 and windows 2008 R2. 

use File::Random qw/:all/;

$dir = "E:\\";
my $file = random_file(
         -dir         => $dir, 
         -check       => qr/.../, # or sub { .... }
         -recursive   => 1        # or 0
  );
print $file; 

OUTPUT:Can't stat E:: No such file or directory
 at C:/Perl/site/lib/File/Random.pm line 121

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The $dir works for the default directory(the directory from which it is invoked)by specifying "." . But is gives this error if i try to specify the directory as E: or anything else which are valid paths. Anybody knows Why?

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In reply to File::Random module by gautamparimoo

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