Re: use File::Basename - need to specify OS?

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From the docs:

"If you haven't called fileparse_set_fstype(), the syntax {that is, how the path is parsed} is chosen by examining the builtin variable $^O according to these rules."

$^O is the variable that contains the name of the operating system under which perl was built.

"these rules" can be found in the perldoc for File::Basename under fileparse_set_fstype.

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Re: Re: use File::Basename - need to specify OS? by halley (Prior) on Apr 21, 2004 at 13:05 UTC
And if you're on a Un*x variety, backslashes in your path designators are not appropriate. Thus, your "DOS"-style pathnames are not going to get parsed correctly unless you override your `fileparse_set_fstype()`. -- `[ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]`	[reply] [d/l]

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