Re^2: perl tk widget will not copy files

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Re^3: perl tk widget will not copy files by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Aug 11, 2015 at 09:52 UTC
I am not sure of the design cause of this behaviour, although I have long been aware of it, but using ActiveState Perl v5.20.2, Perl could not find my home directory using backslashes or single backslashes, but changing to single forward slashes did make the opendir work on my laptop. Update: come to think of it, there are some advantages to Perl's uniform interface to file-systems. For example many algorithms that combine glob or opendir with recursive traversal will be portable between nix and windows as a result. One world, one people*	[reply]
Re^4: perl tk widget will not copy files by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 11, 2015 at 12:04 UTC
On Windows 8.1 using Perl 5.20.2 running: `use strict; use warnings; opendir my ($root), 'C:\Users\Default'; my @dirs = readdir $root; print "$_\n" for @dirs;` [download] Prints (in part): `. .. AppData Application Data Cookies Desktop Documents Downloads Favorites Links Local Settings Music My Documents` [download] so it seems there is no "design cause" for the behaviour you see because it doesn't exist. `perl -V` reports in part: `Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 20 subversion 2) configuration +: Platform: osname=MSWin32, osvers=6.3, archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.20.2.1 #1 Sat Feb 21 18:04:11 2015 +x64'` [download] Premature optimization is the root of all job security	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: perl tk widget will not copy files by anonymized user 468275 (Curate) on Aug 12, 2015 at 09:23 UTC
The platform I reproduced it on was Windows 7. I notice also you used Strawberry Perl for your test. I don't know where or when this behaviour got fixed, but to say it doesn't exist seems rash under the circumstances. One world, one people	[reply]
Re^6: perl tk widget will not copy files by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 12, 2015 at 09:42 UTC
Re^7: perl tk widget will not copy files by poj (Abbot) on Aug 12, 2015 at 09:45 UTC
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