Well, you never know when you've got incomplete information

There's no information missing. The source is on CPAN. Feel free to check it. You'll find the same thing.

I can't imagine why the code would change only the first part of the path to "\\". So I asked

Probably because you think something was changed. It's what you get when you place a path seperator between '' and '/foo/go/do'. That's fine on unix, but not on Windows.

Anyway, I've been playing with version 3.33, the current version, on Vista and I'm not seeing the OP's results.

What did you get, then?

I think I used 3.31 — I'll confirm when I can — and I got the correct but undesired result (single slash). ( Confirmed )

In reply to Re^4: Failure of catfile on Windows 7 by ikegami
in thread Failure of catfile on Windows 7 by Anonymous Monk

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