Re: [MacPerl] $ basepath = "..." Yes, but...

[sharon@didit.com]

>>> I'm not able to find the right directory...
>>> I tried with:
>>> $basepath = "/MacintoshHD/WebSTAR 3.0/nameofmyfolder"
>>> and with
>>> $basepath =  "/MacintoshHD/WebSTAR%203.0/nameofmyfolder",
>>> with   "%20" instead of the  blankspace  between  "WebSTAR" and "3.0"
>>
>>The file path separator for Mac Os is a colon ':', not a slash. Also,
>>for my money, I avoid any file/directory names with spaces. One of
>>Perl's stength's is "cross-platform-ability." Using spaces in file names
>>tends to break this.
>
>Yes, but as long as the space is not at the beginning or end of the entire
>path, you should be OK.  Unix can handle a space in a filename fine, too.
>Worse is putting a slash in the file name.  :)

I tried...
This is the script:
> # System: are you using Un*x , Win32, or MacOS ??
> # 1 = unix
> # 2 = Win32 (WinNT / Win95)
> # 3 = MacOS
> $system = 3;

> if    ($system == 1) { $delim = "/" }
> elsif ($system == 2) { $delim = "\\" }
> elsif ($system == 3) { $delim = ":" }

> # URL to this script:
> $cgiurl = "http://www.company.com/cgi-bin/script.cgi";
> $adminurl = "http://www.company.com/cgi-bin/scriptadmin.cgi";

> #$secureurl = "https://www.company.com/myfolder/script.cgi";

> # what is the base path to the directory where the files are
>(home,header,footer)?
> $basepath= ":home:company:www:myfolder";

> # what are your header and footer HTML docs?
> $header = "header.html";
> $footer = "footer.html";

But it didn't work.
...I get "no such file or directory"...
...what can I do...?
Thanx.



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