in reply to Re^4: Can Perl do anything Java can do?
in thread Can Perl do anything Java can do?

Actually, it's Windows itself that copes with forward slashes as well as backslashes, not Perl.

It is mostly the shell and UNC filenames that really need backslashes.

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