This doesn't appear to have been mentioned before so here is a Windows tidbit:

Perl on windows can use "/" instead of the windows backslash in path names just fine. So when calling a Perl function on Windows, C:/dir/dir2 is just fine.A Perl function under Windows will also return forward slash names instead of backslash names.

You need the backslash when you go to the windows shell (with backticks, etc), but otherwise use the forwardslash "/". The code is more portable and this solves some problems when running regex'es on pathnames since you don't have to worry about "escaping" the backslash with yet another backslash.

In reply to Re: Trouble using a Win32 file path in an array by Marshall
in thread Trouble using a Win32 file path in an array by geo

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