First, I'm new to Perl (among other things!). This may be a naive question, but I have yet to find a conclusive answer. If there is a simple answer (anyone), please enlighten me.

The form of relative path strings seems to me to vary from code to code, coder to coder with regard to placement of delimiters.

Eg:
1. /dir/dir/
2. /dir/dir
3. dir/dir/
4. dir/dir

For my own internal uses I prefer the No 3 form. It seems to make things simpler? But with Perl (i.e File::Spec) & other library calls I have to massage the strings into shape a lot of the time.

Is one of the forms a 'better' way? More portable? More accepted? More Perl?

In reply to Path strings by Anonymous Monk

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