in reply to / to \ substitution

Can you post more of your code? I don't see anything here that would cause the the problem you're having.

Is this a CGI script? Are you using CGI.pm? Have you tried running it from the command line?

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RE: Re: / to \ substitution
by NeverMore (Acolyte) on May 31, 2000 at 07:30 UTC
    That's about it. I am using CGI.pm. You can do something as simple as this and see the problem 
    use CGI qw(:all);

$file2 = param('file') unless $debug;
print "$file2\n";
$file2 =~ s[\\][/]g;

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    Then you can do "perl foobar.pl file=c:\foo\bar.txt". Observe what happens. -NM
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[d/l]
      Actually, try this as well: 
      use CGI qw(:all);

$debug = 1;

$file2 = param('file') unless $debug;
$file2 = 'c:\foo\bar.txt' if $debug;
print "$file2\n";
$file2 =~ s[\\][/]g;

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      This debug thing really was a neat thing, btw.

      -NM

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[d/l]
        I must be missing something, because I don't see what the problem is. The substitution is working correctly, as you will see if you add a second print "$file2\n"; at the end. What is it that you are trying to achieve?

        --ZZamboni

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