relative path in windows XP

Hi,

I have a script:

#!perl -w

system("....somefun.exe <input.txt");

However, I got the warning message:

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

Does anyone know what i should do to fix this relative
path problem?

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2008/3/27 jiqiang yao < jiqiang123%40yahoo.com">jiqiang123yahoo.com>:
&gt; I have a script:
>
> #!perl -w
> system(&quot;....somefun.exe <input.txt");
>
> However, I got the warning message:
>
>; '..' is not recognized as an internal or external
> command, operable program or batch file.
&gt;
> Does anyone know what i should do to fix this relative
> path problem?

The problem is that you're using backslashes in a double-quoted string.
Backslashes are escaping characters, so ".&quot; is really the same as ".&quot;. The
nice thing is, you don't NEED to use backslashes, even though you're on
Windows. You can simply use forwardslashes, and the OS will know what to
do:

system "../../somefun.exe < input.txt&quot;;

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