Charles Pelkey wrote:
>  Try the following:
>   
>  open(DLFILE, "<$files_location\test.pdf") or die "Could not open file 

\t is interpreted as a tab character. This is why it fails.

When using \ as path separators they must always be escaped, hence

   open(DLFILE, "<$files_location\\test.pdf") or die "Could not open file

or, a little less ugly and more cross-platform, use forward slashes;
Perl will know what to do.

   open(DLFILE, "<$files_location/test.pdf") or die "Could not open file

Also, the three-arg form is safer:

   open(DLFILE, "<", "$files_location/test.pdf")

David

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