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Windows generally accepts forward slashes in addition to the canonical back slashes; it does not use colons -- that's MacOS.

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Re^5: jar like feature
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 22, 2004 at 04:06 UTC
    Windows generally accepts forward slashes in addition to the canonical back slashes;

    oops, right! See, I told you I should I have used File::Spec! (Actually, I did include '/' in the list of seperators.)

    Windows does not use colons -- that's MacOS.

    What about c:test.txt??? True, it can't be used to seperate directories, but I never said it could.

      What about c:test.txt??? True, it can't be used to seperate directories, but I never said it could.

      Yes, you did (empasis added):

      I wasn't refering to $0, but to the path seperator. In unix, it's '/'. In Windows, it can be '\' and ':'.

      The colon is the logical disk separator (required at least for absolute local filenames). In the case of a:file the directory separator can be optionally dropped (and the latest versions of the NT command interpreter can even handle things like disk:dir\file).