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Why am I getting is not recognized as an internal or external command error in Perl?

Hi,
I am running my Perl code with some input options. Everything run fine but at the end the code halts and it says

'\dir1\dir2\' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

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The command that I am running is something like this:

perl \some\directory\mytool -f somefile -verbose -reportloc \dir1\dir2\

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and this is how I define-reportloc option in GetOptions:

'reportloc=s' => \$reportLocation,

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If I hit Ctrl+c then it exits the program just fine. But why does it hang there?

Thanks,

Tolgar

ASKER

ok. I kind of found the problem.

I get the error in this line:

exec("$path2Report")

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The equivalent of this line in Unix is:

system("xdg-open '$path2Report' > /dev/null 2>&1");

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I use these two commands (based on the OS) to open up an HTML report in the browser.

The one in Unix works fine but in Windows I get this weird message.

Does anyone have an idea?

ozo

What is in $path2Report?
What command does your windows system use to open up an HTML report in the browser?

'\dir1\dir2\' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
is an error message from the DOS shell
http://robertmarkbramprogrammer.blogspot.com/2008/01/xxx-is-not-recognized-as-internal-or.html

Tolgar

ASKER

@ozo: $path2Report is the path to a HTML file. I use exec to open up the HTML report on Windows.

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