I am trying to use catfile in File::Spec::Functions, and am mildly befuddled. Not a big deal, but why does the following code yield  test\.xml, rather than  test.xml? I must be swapping the order of the arguments in one of the two functions...? Seems like I missing something obvious in the docs...

rkg 

use strict;
use File::Spec::Functions;
use File::Basename;

my $file = 'test.txt';

my ($base,$path,$type) = fileparse($file, qr/\.txt/);

print "base=$base path=$path type=$type\n";

print catfile($path, $base, '.xml');  #  test\.xml

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UPDATE:

The issue is the comma vs. a period in the catfile... sorry I did not catch this earlier. 

print catfile($path, $base . '.xml');

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In reply to File::Spec::Functions by rkg

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