Though Path::Class seems to be really good (and maybe I should have used it in place of File::Spec from the beginning), I don't see how it can handle my case, as it seems to require the *caller* to already know which style the pathes are.

For example, when running the following piece of code: 

use Path::Class;
foreach $s ('x/y','x\y') {
  $dir=Path::Class:Dir->new($s)->as_foreign('Unix');
  print "$dir\n";
}

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I would have wished that this would output 
  x/y
  x/y

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no matter whether the application is running on Unix or on Windows. But on Unix (for example), I get 
  x/y
  x\y

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I understand the behaviour of Path::Class: It is not designed to look into a path string and guess from there what OS type it is supposed to be - but this is the very thing I'm looking for.

-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Re^2: CPAN Module for mixing Unix/Windows path by rovf
in thread CPAN Module for mixing Unix/Windows path by rovf

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