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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 11:52:15 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <freeweb AT nyckelpiga DOT de>
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To: Alan Westhagen <afw AT u DOT washington DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Perl can't find my files
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Alan schrieb:

> I wrote a perl program which uses the construct
>     while (<>) {
>     }

> If I run this script from the directory in
> which it resides, and the files whose names
> are passed as arguments reside in a
> subdirectory, everything works fine.

> Otherwise I get the following error message:

> Can't open <whatever the file name is>: No such
> file or directory at <program name> line 6 .

> I am certain that the files in the argument list
> do indeed exist, because I run an "ls" with the
> same pattern and they are listed.

> I must be missing an environment variable opr
> some other configuration switch.

> Has anyone experienced this problem?

Is . included in your PATH?


Gerrit
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