Re^2: UNC vs. standard Perl functions

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'"
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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]