From: Mark Finlay (sisob at domain eircom.net)
Date: Sat 08 Jun 2002 - 00:02:00 IST
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.
>
> - DoC
>
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-- Mark Finlay "sisob's linux eXPerience" http://sisob.dyndns.org Registered Linux User: #243436
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