Re: paths in Perl

At 13:56 +0000 3/12/09, David Cantrell wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:27:54AM -0400, Wayne Brissette wrote:
>
>>I'm new to writing perl and perl in Mac OS X, although I've had 
>>plenty of AppleScript experience.

>>  Anyhow, I'm playing around with reading in some static files in 
>>perl, what I've discovered is that if put the script in the same 
>>directory as the text file, it works properly. However, if I try to 
>>provide a path like: ~/Documents/log_files/
>>
>>  The script can't open the file. is there a trick in Mac OS X to do 
>>this that is outside the perl norm?
>
>Using ~ as a shortcut for your home directory is a shell-ism, perl
>doesn't handle it.  Replace it with $ENV{HOME}, or if you want your code
>to be portable to non-Unix platforms, use the File::Homedir module.

If you're using AppleScript's "do shell script" command remember that 
those environment variables may not be what you expect. You're passed 
through a bash shell that doesn't read your profile stuff. I believe 
$HOME is OK but a lot of other things are not. $PATH and $PERL5LIB 
certainly do not work.

$HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist is something you might want to learn about.

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