which Cwd realpath/abs_path ... is supposed to be case preserving on win32?

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use Path::Tiny qw/ path /;
print path( 'C:/WIndowS/sySTEm32/ADvapI32.dll' )->realpath, "\n"
__END__
C:/WIndowS/sySTEm32/ADvapI32.dll
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realpath just calls Cwd::realpath which is Cwd::abs_path which is something sometimes ...

which one of the Cwd what/which is supposed to be case-preserving on case insensitive filenames like on win32?

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Re: which Cwd realpath/abs_path ... is supposed to be case preserving on win32? by syphilis (Archbishop) on Apr 14, 2014 at 05:51 UTC
Hi, If you want case-preserved name, you can use Win32::GetLongPathName() HTH Cheers, Rob	[reply]