try using the full path to the file:

open(INFH, '<', 'full/path/to/gettysburgh.txt') or die $!;

Window fully supports forward slashes in directory paths. It always has. You can start using them from now on.

This is the three argument style of open:

open(INFH, '<', 'full/path/to/gettysburgh.txt') or die $!;

Its safer to use than the two argument style:

I'm pretty sure its convered in the open() functions documentation:

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open.html

I'm pretty sure windows does not support paths with / as the separator. Try this: cd / or cd /windowsand then try this cd \windows. What I'm guessing happens here, is Perl (and other languages that do this, such as python) are smart enough to know that even though we hacker-esque folks use / in a path, that we really mean \, and naturally adjusts it

I'm pretty sure windows does not support paths with / as the separator. Try this: cd / or cd /windowsand then try this cd \windows. What I'm guessing happens here, is Perl (and other languages that do this, such as python) are smart enough to know that even though we hacker-esque folks use / in a path, that we really mean \, and naturally adjusts it

You can see here listed under directory paths for Windows:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path_(computing)

In fact they list DOS as also accepting both \ / in directory paths. Maybe there is a way in DOS to change the path seperator. But when I try it it does not work in DOS, but it does in Windows.