.------[ K Pfeiffer wrote (2002/10/29 at 22:39:04) ]------
|
| Hi,
|
| I as trying the File::Spec module mentioned in Learning Perl and noticed
| that it fails with a pathname like "~/perl_practice/myfile". I looked at
| "perldoc -q tilde" and it does mention a general problem with this. I this
| true with this module (or others) or did I just do something wrong?
|
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File::Spec isn't designed to handle tildes and it's not a special
Perl operator. Tilde is Unix means 'home directory'. So the
example was trying to say '/home/user/perl_practice/myfile' by using
the '~/perl_practice/myfile' shortcut.
You'll need to expand the ~ on your own if you want it to be useful.
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