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in thread What is the meaning of this line in Perl on linux?

There is changing the Two forward slashes to two backward slashes

$localdir =~ s/\\\///g;

The above line can i use for changing the backward slashes to forward slashes

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Re^3: What is the meaning of this line in Perl on linux?
by haukex (Archbishop) on Mar 28, 2022 at 08:30 UTC

    Hopefully this makes it clearer:

    #           delimiters
#             |  |  |
#             v  v  v
$localdir =~ s/\//\\/g;
#              ^^ ^^
#              |   |
#    search part   replacement

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    But for regexes, I would recommend using what I suggested:

    $localdir =~ s{\\}{/}g;

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    But as I said, using a module for this is even better:

    use warnings;
use strict;
use Path::Class qw/foreign_file foreign_dir/;

my $file = foreign_file('Win32', "..\\Hello\\World.txt");
print $file->as_foreign('Unix'), "\n"; # prints "../Hello/World.txt"

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Re^3: What is the meaning of this line in Perl on linux?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Mar 28, 2022 at 08:29 UTC

    No. The above line is a syntax error and Perl tells you so.

    Maybe you want to learn about Perl quoting rules for strings? The backslash \ is special in Perl strings and is used to mark the next character as exempt from the quoting rules. See Quote-and-Quote-like-Operators, especially the section about Escape Sequences. There it explains why you need to write \\ when you want to match a single \ in a regular expression.

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      No. The above line is a syntax error and Perl tells you so.

      At first glance I thought so too, but it's actually not - it's just s{\\\/}{}g. LTS strikes again :-)

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      I want to change the two backward slashes to two forward Slashes. For that anyone can provide the syntax for changing the two backward slashes to two forward Slashes.

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        Yes. The line you posted in your first post actually works for that. We told you so. Where is your question?

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