in reply to windows perl and paths

Did you try it without the escaping backslashes? I find when I'm coding on Windows, I only need to escape a backslash in a path. Forward slashes seem to work ok without escape, so that's all I use. What version of Perl?

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Re^2: windows perl and paths
by flieckster (Scribe) on Nov 19, 2016 at 19:23 UTC
    I'm on strawberry perl, the other way and it can't find the directory at all.
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      So you're saying that you get the specified warning when you try to chdir to Z:/Partners/Wilsons/2push_test?

      Can you, from the command line, cd Z:\Partners\Wilsons\2push_test successfully?

      These are all Strawberry Perl installs, that I ran this code against:

      use warnings;
use strict;
use feature 'say';

use Cwd;

say getcwd();
chdir 'c:/repos' or die $!;
say getcwd();

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      Output:

      c:\>berrybrew exec perl chdir.pl

Perl-5.24.0_64
==============
c:/
c:/repos


Perl-5.22.2_64
==============
c:/
c:/repos


Perl-5.18.4_64
==============
c:/
c:/repos


Perl-5.10.1_32
==============
c:/
c:/repos

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      So using forward slashes without escaping them most definitely works all the way back to at least 5.10.

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