Writing to a file above the current folder? Dumb question...

[tristero]

I know this is a really dumb question, but, what do i have to write in order to specify a file in a folder above the cgi folder?

For example(Perl):

$outfile = '/dat/outfile.dat';

--will write the file /cgi/dat/outfile.dat

what if the directory tree is:

>/html/
   |
>>>/cgi/
     |
>>>>>/dat/

and I wanted to write the outfile to /html/outfile.dat, but my script is in /html/cgi?
-Very basic stuff, i know. I'm still pretty new to the cgi game and I've never had to do this before... Thank you

 

[goBoating]

open(OUTFILE,">[red]../[/red]outfile.dat&quot or die "Failed to open output file, $!\n"; 'hope this helps

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