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If aesthetics don't matter, just use "/" everywhere.

Perl will cheerfully use that as a path separator on any OS.

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Re: Re (tilly) 1: cross platform perl - how to modify $path
by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) on Aug 21, 2001 at 08:21 UTC
    Yea, but "external programs" != Perl, and those might indeed care; and the question has to do with how entries in PATH are separated, not how path nodes within each entry are separated.
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