... the following are equivalent:

my $wilsonstiff = "Z:\/Partners\/Wilsons\/2push_test";
my $wilsonstiff = 'Z:\Partners\Wilsons\2push_test';

I don't understand that statement: 

c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $x = qq{Z:\/Partners\/Wilsons\/2push_test};
 my $y =   'Z:\Partners\Wilsons\2push_test';
 ;;
 print qq{'$x'  '$y'};
 die 'not equivalent!' unless $x eq $y;
"
'Z:/Partners/Wilsons/2push_test'  'Z:\Partners\Wilsons\2push_test'
not equivalent! at -e line 1.

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But I completely agree with you and stevieb that Perl understands forward slashes in paths under Windows perfectly well: 

c:\@Work\Perl>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $path = 'c:/@Work/DMD2/learn';
 ;;
 chdir $path;
 print for grep -d, glob 'w*';
"
wc
weather_report
writef_format

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So I don't really understand the OP...

Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

In reply to Re^2: windows perl and paths by AnomalousMonk
in thread windows perl and paths by flieckster

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