Re: UNC vs. standard Perl functions

>perl -e "print '\\server\share'"
\server\share
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Don't you mean

>perl -e "print '\\\\server\\share'"
\\server\share
>perl -e "print -d '\\\\server\\share'"
1
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Remember,
\ and ' must be espcaped with \ in single-quoted string literals.
\ and ", $ and @ must be espcaped with \ in double-quoted string literals.

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Re^2: UNC vs. standard Perl functions by Errto (Vicar) on Mar 16, 2005 at 15:05 UTC
Actually, double-\\ in a single-quoted string is interpreted as a single \ but otherwise \ does not need to be escaped. So this also works: `perl -e "print -d '\\\\server\share'"` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: UNC vs. standard Perl functions by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 16, 2005 at 15:25 UTC
True. Stylisticly, I prefer to escape them all, so I don't have to look at the context to know what \n means (for example). Adopting that convention would have avoided the OP's problem.	[reply]
Re^2: UNC vs. standard Perl functions by crenz (Priest) on Mar 16, 2005 at 14:59 UTC
I'm hitting myself now. Thanks, I forgot about that. I was so very convinced you don't have to quote \ in '' strings...	[reply]
Re^3: UNC vs. standard Perl functions by Errto (Vicar) on Mar 16, 2005 at 15:06 UTC
You don't, unless you want to have two of them together.	[reply]