Re^2: How to copy a file in a perl variable to a directory


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Re^2: How to copy a file in a perl variable to a directory

by rovf (Priest)

on Jul 20, 2012 at 15:58 UTC ( [id://982858]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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While it is certainly advisable to output $!, it is not always clear whether the reported error relates to the source- or the destination file. This is particularily true in case the code is supposed to run on Windows, where I found that many kinds of access problems lead to the same error string.

I would therefore also do some basic checks before calling copy, at least: read permission on the source file, write permission for the destination directory.

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