SPUG: Yet another silly question

Brian Wisti wbrian2 at qwest.net
Sat Jan 19 17:12:52 CST 2002


Hi Susanna,

Here's one way:

my $dirname = "foo";
unless (-e $dirname) {
	mkdir ($dirname) ||
		die("Cannot create directory '$dirname': $!\n");
}

There's probably a few other ways, Perl being what it is :-)

Brian Wisti

On Saturday 19 January 2002 02:22 pm, you wrote:
> Ok, I am trying to figure out the coding for checking to see if a directory
> exists and if it doesn't, create it.  I've gotten out my "Perl For Dummies"
> book and did a lot of searching and am still stumped.  Anyone have a quick
> and easy answer for me?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Susanne Bullo - Sweet Homes

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------
Visit http://www.coolnamehere.com/
It'll kill some time.

 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
     POST TO: spug-list at pm.org       PROBLEMS: owner-spug-list at pm.org
      Subscriptions; Email to majordomo at pm.org:  ACTION  LIST  EMAIL
  Replace ACTION by subscribe or unsubscribe, EMAIL by your Email-address
 For daily traffic, use spug-list for LIST ;  for weekly, spug-list-digest
     Seattle Perl Users Group (SPUG) Home Page: http://zipcon.net/spug/





More information about the spug-list mailing list