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Join Date: Sep 2009

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rdevi

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passing a path variable to system()

Oct 6th, 2009

Hi all,

I am new to Perl. I am trying to send a variable which contains the location of my executable (eg: C:\temp) to system function. i initialized the variable as,
my var1="C:\\temp";
when i print this line i got : C:\temp as o/p.
To start the executable i did:
system("$var1//executable.exe");
I thought, var1 is replaced with C:\temp, but not with C:\\temp
If i don't provide C:\\temp\\executable.exe to system(), the execution is not started.
I want to send a variable with two slashes to system function. Help me here. Or suggest me any work around

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mitchems

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Passing a path

Oct 6th, 2009

This will work in one of two ways

Change to:
my var1="C:\\\\temp";

And the do what you're doing.

Or, change to
my var1="C:/temp";

Which should work as well.

And don't tell me there isn't one bit of difference between null and space, because that's exactly how much difference there is.

Larry Wall