To access an file inside the workarea

Hi friends

Can any one please guide me how to access a file inside an workrarea. actually am using an *.ipl file to read an xml (present inside the workarea), and my ipl reside at different location

*am using an Unix box .

Thanks

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nbwoven

If I understand this correctly depending on what you're trying to accomlish with this perl ipl script ; the Solaris absolute path to the xml file should work fine . Eg. //test/default/main/US/dev/WORKAREA/user/docroot/abc.xml

Nawin

[QUOTE=nbwoven]If I understand this correctly depending on what you're trying to accomlish with this perl ipl script ; the Solaris absolute path to the xml file should work fine . Eg. //test/default/main/US/dev/WORKAREA/user/docroot/abc.xml

Right now i have placed it(the xml file ) in the same location where my ipl file is , now i want it placed under the current workarea . will this will help me to retrive the file .

TeamSite::Config::iwgetmount(); , and am getting /wmnt value .

Adam Stoller

[QUOTE=nbwoven]If I understand this correctly depending on what you're trying to accomlish with this perl ipl script ; the Solaris absolute path to the xml file should work fine . Eg. //test/default/main/US/dev/WORKAREA/user/docroot/abc.xml

Right now i have placed it(the xml file ) in the same location where my ipl file is , now i want it placed under the current workarea . will this will help me to retrive the file .

TeamSite::Config::iwgetmount(); , and am getting /wmnt value .

Yes -

use TeamSite::Config;
my $iwmount = TeamSite::Config::iwgetmount();
...
my $full_path = "$iwmount/$branch/WORKAREA/$waname/$dirpath/$filename";
if (!open(IN, "<", $full_path)) {
    # ERROR
}
my $file_contents = do { local $/;  };
close(IN);
...

Obviously (I hope) you need to know the branch, workarea name (or "STAGING" or edition name), directory path within the area, and the name of the file you wish to read.

The above code "slurps" the entire contents of the file into a single scalar variable - often this is what you want, sometimes you're better off processing the file in chunks (lines, number of bytes, etc.) - it's often a trade-off between CPU and memory and based on the expected size of the file whose contents you wish to read, its format, and what you want to do with it.