I would have to disagree. Single quotes work fine when you have a backslash followed by anything but a backslash, but if you try to use two backslashes together (as in '\\foo') they will escape into one backslash. Does anyone know how to avoid this? Strings like '\\\\192.168.1.1' to get \\192.168.1.1 are ugly.

The best I could come up with is: 

print <<'' . " is the UNC name"
\\192.168.1.1

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But this leaves an extra newline at the end of the IP address. Am I missing something blatently obvious?

In reply to Re: Re: Re: DOS directory naming in PERL? by Anonymous Monk
in thread DOS directory naming in PERL? by phathead22

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