Settings::control_folder outputs blank string

[einbroch]

Whenever I call $Settings::control_folder it just outputs a blank string how do i fix this. I tried to display it like this:

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message("$Settings::control_folder","system");

I get no path, and no errors.

[EternalHarvest]

No idea where you've got this from (there's only an unrelated comment mentioning it in trunk now). There's &Settings::getControlFilename, &Settings::getControlFolders etc, just look in Settings.pm.

[einbroch]

Hi,

I got it from functions.pl Line 131: , rev: 7791

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sub loadDataFiles {
	# These pragmas are necessary in order to support non-ASCII filenames.
	# If we use UTF-8 strings then Perl will think the file doesn't exist,
	# if $Settings::control_folder or $Settings::tables_folder contains
	# non-ASCII characters.
        ....
}

I tried

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message("$Settings::getControlFolders","system");

doesn't give me any output but for the logs folder i get an output and its correct when i do this:

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message("$Settings::logs_folder","list");

[EternalHarvest]

It's a function, not a variable.

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use Data::Dumper; message Dumper Settings::getControlFolders;

[einbroch]

Oops, yeah 'get' is supposed to be a function

However I get a weird output from this:

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my $controlFolder = Settings::getControlFolders;
message("$controlFolder","system");

Output:

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1

I am expecting path to control folder

[EternalHarvest]

Just as expected when evaluating any array in scalar context in Perl - result is the number of items.

[einbroch]

Oops my bad, got it.

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my @controlFolders = Settings::getControlFolders;
message("$controlFolders[0]","system");