Monks,

I have a perl scrit which accepts directory path and filenames through different argument names. For example :- 

perl script_name.pl -dir "/home/test/input_dir" -file input_file_1 inp
+ut_file_2 input_file_3

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In my script I would open the files as follows :- 
foeach my $file_names ( @file_names_passed ) {
   open ( FH , "$dir_path/$file_name) or die "$!";
   # managed to do some operation on the file.
   close(FH);
}

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But, if I run the same script in windows OS, I have to specify "\\" for delimiting the path. ( unix it is "/" ).
Is there any common character available to delimit the path regardless of what OS I am using this script ?

Apologies If I anyone got irked because of this question.



i m possible

In reply to How to write a perl script to work on many OS(s) by jesuashok

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