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Setting location for a temp file

Hi,

I have got a script to create a temp file using:

($fh, $filename) = tempfile(SUFFIX => '.vcf');

Now you can set the location directory of this file using:

$dir = tempdir( CLEANUP => 1 );

($fh, $filename) = tempfile( $template, DIR => $dir);

But that puts the temp file in a directory in the /tmp directory. Something like:

/tmp/Ir9usvCuAr/GykBOCKgOc

My question is how can I set a directory to hold these new temp files somewhere else in the file structure? Somewhere like /home/me/public_html/thisplace_here/

Thanks for any advice :)

Should have said that just putting the path in $dir just gives an error.

:D

Perhaps you have spaces in the path? Are you escaping backslashes, if you're using backslashes? (You don't mention your system.)