Re: Re: Best Way to Search and Delete files on a large Windows Filesystem

I use File::Spec->canonpath($File::Find::name) to get cleaned up paths on Win32. Note that Cygwin and ActiveState handle paths a little bit differently. I generally prefer the way ActiveState does it.

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Re: Re: Re: Best Way to Search and Delete files on a large Windows Filesystem by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 08, 2002 at 18:11 UTC
Yeah ive done the same thing, although I generally use regexes if the output is from File::Find. But my point was that using the path as returned is fine and that taking advantage of the backslash change can be quite useful. For instance for creating a HOH of the directory structure. You can just do something like `my($root,$path)=$funnyspec=~m!([^/]+)([^\]+)!; my @parts=split('/',$path);` [download] (well YKWIM) Anyway, I have to admit that I almost never use my cygwin version of Perl. Yves / DeMerphq -- When to use Prototypes? Advanced Sorting - GRT - Guttman Rosler Transform	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: Re: Re: Best Way to Search and Delete files on a large Windows Filesystem
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Mar 08, 2002 at 18:11 UTC

my($root,$path)=$funnyspec=~m!([^/]+)([^\]+)!;
my @parts=split('/',$path);
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Anyway, I have to admit that I almost never use my cygwin version of Perl.

Yves / DeMerphq
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