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Does this apply to both Perl functions and command-line arguments, or just the CLI? "Switches" in filenames is particularly useless, so I wonder if an open(F, "/somedir/filename.txt") would work identically on Unix and Win2k?

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RE: RE: RE: RE: slash converter
by Shendal (Hermit) on Oct 13, 2000 at 22:13 UTC
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    Yes, it works the same on Win2k. Of course, it will assume the root on the current drive letter, though (use chdir to change drive letters).

    Here's an example to illustrate the point:
    #!perl -w
use strict; # always

open(F,">/temp/foo.txt") 
    or die "Unable to open temp file for write: $!\n";
print F "This is a test.  This is only a test.\n";
close(F);

open(F,"/temp/foo.txt") 
    or die "Unable to open temp file for read: $!\n";
while (<F>) { print "foo: $_"; }
close(F);

unlink ("/temp/foo.txt");

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    ...which outputs:
    foo: This is a test.  This is only a test.

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    Cheers,
    Shendal
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      In write-mode also? E.g. open(F, ">/somedir/filename.txt") In other words, does it correctly create this new file as c:\somedir\filename.txt?

      (Update: The original node was updated, answering this question.)

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