Sorry for re-posting... just in case people don't want to click down another level...

Well, I put together some sample code, and OK, it reads a pathname with single slashes, and seems to run it ok, except for a 'Can't spawn "filename-here" No error" after executing the command.

What I was getting at was that, since so many of the docs for Win32 modules have double slashes instead of single slashes, if I were to follow that convention, I'd have to convert back and forth between single and double slashes. An example, taken from from the Win32::AdminMisc FAQ:

Win32::AdminMisc::ComputerAliasAdd( '\\\\Server1', 'fred' );

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and another example from the Win32::FileOp page: 
 Substed 'A:' => ('','Floppy0')
 Substed 'B:' => undef
 Substed 'C:' => ('','Harddisk0\Partition1')
 Substed 'H:' => ('\\\\servername\homes\username','UNC')
  # set by subst H: \\servername\homes\username
 Substed 'S:' => ('\\\\servername\servis','LanmanRedirector')
  # set by net use S: \\servername\servis
 Substed 'X:' => ()
  # not mapped to anything

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You will notice that these, and other cases, have four slashes, not two, at the beginning of a UNC path.

So, basically, I'm worried that somewhere along the line, I'll get the two mixed up. A potential ramification here is that the config file could be written with four slashes and not two for a UNC path. Of course, there are other bugs that could pop up, too...

-- Burvil

In reply to Re: Win32 File tests, pathnames by bowei_99
in thread Win32 File tests, pathnames by bowei_99

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