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I haven't coded Perl for Win32 for quite a time now (mostly work on Solaris), therefore, I tend to run into weird problems with common modules and scripts that used to work on Solaris and won't work well (or as expected) on Win32 systems.

One particular problem I have is with File::Find using '/' in file path names, instead of, say, '\' as I thought it would do. Doesn't File::Find do a check on the type of system it is dealing with and then figure out which 'slash' is to be used? I now end up having to do 's/\//\\/g' on my file path to switch all '/' to '\' so that I can actually access those files.

Here's a small snippet from my code: 
    find(sub {
               !/$skip_match/ && /$accept_match/ &&
               -f && $handle_onfound->("$File::Find::name", $handle_on
+found_args);
             },
         $startdir);

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where, $handle_onfound is a handler subroutine and $startdir is set to directory I wish to do my search in. $File::Find::name would always have '/' in it. I'm wondering if any monk out there would know of a way to fix this? I consulted File::Find perldoc but didn't find anything pertaining to this matter.

Thanks for help! ;)

"There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels." -- Confession of Faith

In reply to File::Find uses '/' in path on Win32 system. by vladb

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