Re: File Existance

(Bringing this back to the list)

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 21:09, you wrote:
> I don't get this to work. What am I doing wrong? Must the path be
> included? My program is like this:
>
> my $program = "ls";
>
> if (-e $program) {
> #execute program
> }
yes, it must include the full path:
foreach ('ls', '/bin/ls') {
if (-e $_) { print "$_ exists\n"; } else { print "$_ doesn't exist\n"; }
}
Prints:
ls doesn't exist
/bin/ls exists

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