Does %INC always have Unix-style paths?

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Re: Does %INC always have Unix-style paths? by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 30, 2006 at 03:13 UTC
The key you `require` is "If EXPR is a bareword, the require assumes a ``.pm'' extension and replaces ``::'' with ``/'' in the filename for you, to make it easy to load standard modules. This form of loading of modules does not risk altering your namespace." (from require). See also %INC and @INC. Update which doesn't actually say anything about it. However: `use lib ".\\"; print "$_\n" for @INC;` [download] Prints: `.\ C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo 3.5\lib\support\dbgp\perllib C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib .` [download] On an XP system and: `print "$_ => $INC{$_}\n" for keys %INC; prints in part: IO/Socket/UNIX.pm => C:/Perl/lib/IO/Socket/UNIX.pm IO.pm => C:/Perl/lib/IO.pm Carp.pm => C:/Perl/lib/Carp.pm bytes.pm => C:/Perl/lib/bytes.pm DB/RedirectStdOutput.pm => C:\Program Files\ActiveState Komodo 3.5\lib +\support\dbgp\perllib/DB/RedirectStdOutput.pm` [download] DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Does %INC always have Unix-style paths? by Anonymous Monk on Aug 31, 2006 at 07:11 UTC
Yes, as long as you avoid writing `$INC{q,ha\\ha\\ha\\ha.pm,} = q,I'm a bad bad boy,;` [download] which should be written as `$INC{q,ha/ha/ha/ha.pm,} = q,I'm a bad bad boy,;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]