[Israel.pm] Cwd::abs_path and "~"

[Shlomo Yona]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Offer Kaye wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to pass a path containing the tilda "~" sign in the beginning to
> Cwd's abs_path fuction, but I get back undef instead of the full path:
> 
> use Cwd qw(abs_path);
> my $full_path = abs_path("~/some/path") or die "Couldn't resolve path\n";
> 
> I'm running perl 5.8.0 under Linux. Does anybody know why this is failing?
> P.S., I don't need a workaround, there are many ways to go around this
> problem, I'm just curious as to why this doesn't work. Nothing in Cwd's
> documentation suggests this should fail.
> 
> Thanks,
> ----------------------------------
> Offer Kaye
> 
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