Re: inconsistency with ActiveState's open?

The backslash has a special meaning in double-quoted strings. Either replace the quotes with single quotes, or replace the backslashes with forward slashes.

You'll probably find your file at C:gppgppgpp.

Update: tye is (of course) completely right below. I was more than a little confused when writing this.

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Re^2: inconsistency with ActiveState's open? (", ', and \) by tye (Sage) on Jul 14, 2003 at 16:41 UTC
The backslash has a special meaning in double-quoted strings. Um, the backslash has a special meaning in single-quoted strings as well. It has a special meaning in almost all Perl quote(-like) situations¹ (`<<'END'` and `qw()` being the only exceptions). The reason you can get away with `'c:\ggp'` is because single-quoted strings leave unrecognized escapes as-is (while double-quoted strings replace unrecognized escapes with just the escaped character). But if you get in the habbit of writing `'c:\ggp'`, then you are probably going to one day waste a lot of time trying to track down the bug when you write `'\\server\share\etc'`, or be confused when you get syntax errors with `'c:\'`. So, I strongly suggest you use `'c:\\ggp\\ggp\\ggp'` over `'c:\ggp\ggp\ggp'` (or use another alternative). ¹ Don't want to overuse that popular "context" word. (: - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: inconsistency with ActiveState's open? by Cmdr_Tofu (Scribe) on Jul 14, 2003 at 14:57 UTC
Thanks guys, that was a silly mistake smacking head I appreciate the help!! Rohit	[reply]