I'm having an issue simply opening a file and having perl output it on the screen when I run it in the command prompt. Basically...if I put the file in the same folder as my .pl script, and run it...it works fine. However, when I change the location to say something like this:
$loc = '\\Server\Shared Folder\Text.txt'; I can't get it to read it?
Here's my code...what am I doing wrong?:
print "ENTER ACCOUNT NUMBER: ";
$acct = <>;
print "\n>SEARCHING FOR DISPATCH INSTRUCTIONS ON ACCOUNT #: $acct Ple
+ase Wait...";
$loc = "\\\\Server\\MappedNetworkDrive\\Folder\\$acct\\DispatchInstruc
+tions.txt";
print $loc;
#Get File Info
open(MYFILE, "$loc") or print "Didn't Open $loc";
while (<MYFILE>) {
sleep(5);
chomp;
print "$_\n";
}
close (MYFILE);
I love it when a program comes together - jdhannibal
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