pp --addfile query

[P.R.Brady]

The documentation for pp suggests you can add a file in as well as the
script with --addfile=filename
Can the script read this file? How would it open it?
This would be super for bundling both an application and the steering
file which defines how it operates.

Regards
Phil

 

[Alan Stewart]

The documentation for pp suggests you can add a file in as well as the
script with --addfile=filename
Can the script read this file? How would it open it?
This would be super for bundling both an application and the steering
file which defines how it operates.

Regards
Phil

To pack "somedir/steering.dat" into the "config/" zip dir inside the
executable:

pp -a somedir/steering.dat;config/steering.dat -o prog.exe prog.pl

Inside prog.pl, read it with:

my $contents = PAR::read_file("config/steering.dat");

The -a syntax above is "-a <original_filename>;<filename_in_zip>"
The function PAR::read_file is in PAR.pm which is already loaded, no
"use PAR.pm;" needed.

Alan Stewart