[ILUG] OpenOffice.org Location

[Mark Finlay]

On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 22:31, Dave O Connor wrote:
> Mark Finlay said on Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 09:39:20PM +0100:
> > open(SVERSION, $ENV{'HOME'} . "/.sversionrc") or die "Cannot open
> > ~/.sversionrc";
> > 
> > open(SVERSION, $location . "/instdb.ins") or die "Cannot open
> > instdb.ins";
> > 
> > but when I run it I get 
> > 
> > Cannot open instdb.ins at findlocation.pl line 19.
> > 
> > I need to suck a variable out of $location/instdb.ins
> > but on account of not knowing perl I seem to have bothched
> > up the open() function
> 
> Make sure $location/instdb.ins exists, and you can read it. 
> 
> Also try changing the arguemnt to die to something like:
> 
> die "Cannot OPen $location/instdb.ins: $!";
> 
> $! returns the last OS error in text form, so that'll be a little more
> helpful.


I think that the problem is that there is a crazy line return at the end
of $location. It looks like an underlined M in joe and a box in gedit.

it causes $location/instdb.ins to turn into
/instdb.ins/OpenOffice.org1.0 or just /inistdb.ins in either bash or
perl. Any idea how to strip this character. It should work then.


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