hello Monks,
I would like to convert a Windows path, like:

C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\

in this format:

/cdrive/c/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/

I need this in order to work with cygwin.

I wrote two regular expressions:
$path=~s#^(\w):\\#/cygdrive/$1/#;
# from C:\ to /cygdrive/c/ <-- required by cgrsync

$path=~s#\\#/#g; # from \ (win style) to linux style (/)

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So now I have:

from:
C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\
to:
/cdrive/C/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/


but what is about the drive capital letter?
I would like to have it in lower case.

I tried with:
$path=~s#^(\w):\\#/cygdrive/lc($1)/#e;
But I have an error on this.

Any suggestion is welcome.
Thank you!

In reply to from windows path to cygwin path by saintex

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