c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Regexp::Common qw[ delimited ]; my $P1 = '../matrix-ops/matopmul.mk'; my $P2 = 'C:\matrix-ops\matopmul.mk'; print \"P1 has path\n\" if ($P1 =~ /$RE{delimited}{-delim => '\/'}/ ); print \"P2 has path\n\" if ($P2 =~ /$RE{delimited}{-delim => '\/'}/ ); " P1 has path c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "use Regexp::Common qw[ delimited ]; my $P1 = '../matrix-ops/matopmul.mk'; my $P2 = 'C:\matrix-ops\matopmul.mk'; print \"P1 has path\n\" if ($P1 =~ m{$RE{delimited}{-delim => '\/'}} ); print \"P2 has path\n\" if ($P2 =~ m{$RE{delimited}{-delim => '\/'}} ); " P1 has path P2 has path