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Re: 'Permission Denied' error from File::Find

by Roger (Parson)
on Feb 11, 2004 at 03:36 UTC ( [id://328129]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to 'Permission Denied' error from File::Find

$directory = 'c:\my_directory';

Should be:
$directory = 'c:\\my_directory';
# or $directory = 'c:/my_directory';

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Update: This is not the problem it seems. So the problem should be elsewhere.

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Re: Re: 'Permission Denied' error from File::Find
by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 11, 2004 at 03:49 UTC
    Are you sure? It seemed to work for me: 
    C:\>perl
my $x = 'c:\my_dir';
print "'$x'\n";
^Z
'c:\my_dir'

C:\>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

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Re: Re: 'Permission Denied' error from File::Find
by arden (Curate) on Feb 11, 2004 at 05:53 UTC
    Roger, that should work fine because witandhumor is using apostrophes (single ticks). These are all the same thing on Win32: 

    $directory = 'c:\my_directory';
$directory = 'c:/my_directory';
$directory = "c:\\my_directory";
$directory = "c:/my_directory";

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    Basically, if you're going to need to expand any variables, you need to use quotes (double ticks), but for literals it's easier to use apostrophes.

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