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Re: Re: Answer: How do I get the directory containing a given file?

by wog (Curate)
on Feb 24, 2002 at 20:02 UTC ( [id://147201]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Answer: How do I get the directory containing a given file?
in thread How do I get the directory containing a given file?

It appears that Cwd::abs_path has issues in 5.6.1 (which seem to be fixed in bleedperl). You can get around this by reversing the calls: 

use Cwd qw(abs_path);
use File::Basename;

my $dir = abs_path(dirname($file));

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