Question

Lets suppose I have a base directory /home/user/test/. Now, I have two strings a , b which are going to be the folder inside the base directory like /home/user/test/a/b.

Currently what I am doing is:

use File::Path qw(make_path);

my $path = "$basedir"."/"."a"."/"."b"
make_path("$path");

Now, what am looking for is:

my $dir = "/home/user/test";
my $x = "a";
my $y = "b";

make_path($dir, $x, $y); 

But when I run the above code instead of creating /home/user/test/a/b it creates two separate directory a and b in the current working directory.

So, what is the correct way to achieve this.?

Answer 1

Here is an easy way to do it:

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Path qw(make_path);    

my $dir = "/home/user/test";
my $x = "a";
my $y = "b";

make_path(join '/',$dir,$x,$y); 

Look up join for more information.