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Because I work in Perl exclusively on a win2k box, run scripts from that box daily that use the forward slash, and only use the forward slash b/c I hate writing \\\\ before a server, you can mark me a dissenter.

The forward slash absolutely works with an install of ActiveState 6.15 on a win2k box

Update:I did something like the original post in this thread here

-OzzyOsbourne

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RE: RE: RE: RE: slash converter
by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Oct 13, 2000 at 22:30 UTC
    Of course, you can avoid escaping back-slashes by putting everything in single-quotes, but that makes variable interpolation somewhat messy.
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      One of the (for me) more annoying gotchas. Inside a single-quoted string, \ is still special. '\\' is just a single \, and '\'' is a single-quote.

      So if you need to, by chance, wind up with \\, even with a single quote you still find yourself doing \\\\.

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        Weird.. 
        $ cat test
$var = 'c:\test\file.txt';
print "$var\n";

$ perl test
c:\test\file.txt

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        Update: My bad; I see what you're saying.. It needs to examine \ because you may need single-quotes in your single-quoted string. 
        print '\\';   # prints "\" not "\\"

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