Never use backslashes in filenames

Why not? This works fine:

$filename = "C:\\foo.txt";

# as does this
$filename = 'C:\foo.txt';

# but this won't because perl thinks the \ relates to the '
$path = 'C:\some\path\';
$fullpath = $path . $filename;

# however this is fine
$path = "C:\\some\\path\\";
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For more on this subject see Paths in Perl

cheers

tachyon

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