Re: Is there a way for checking if a Path is correct

Hi,
you probably mean if a path is syntactically correct. Well, that's sometimes hard to tell as on Windows you have the backslash as a separator and certain other characters are not allowed whereas under Unix you use the forward slash (aka slash ;-)) as the delimiter while at the same time the backslash is a widely used character used to mask the next character (e.g. a space).

This leaves you with the problem of how to know if a backslash is used to mask the next character or if it is a Windows path.
But there are ways to translate Windows paths to Unix and vv.
Regards,
svenXY

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Re^2: Is there a way for checking if a Path is correct by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Nov 23, 2005 at 13:55 UTC
The backslash is only used to prevent the shell from processing special characters. There's no reason to deal with backslashes yourself - if you write a regex, you aren't dealing with any backslashes that might be in the query string as well, are you? `Perl --((8:>*`	[reply]