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);
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(well YKWIM)

Anyway, I have to admit that I almost never use my cygwin version of Perl.

Yves / DeMerphq
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