Re: Backslashes in command arguements

It would probably be useful to print out $hostName before you use it. ~~Your double backslash on the command line ("foo.pl \\hostname") may be converted to a single backslash when Perl gets it~~, but I'm guessing that it's getting converted in the backticks. You can escape them before it gets there like so:

$hostName =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
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Update: Thanks to ikegami for pointing out that my speculation was off the mark. DOS does not mangle backslashes on the command line. I thought it might, so I suggested printing out the variable to be sure. I'd have checked this myself, but I don't have Perl on Windows to try.

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Re^2: Backslashes in command arguements by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 26, 2007 at 17:24 UTC
Your double backslash on the command line ("foo.pl \\hostname") may be converted to a single backslash when Perl gets it No. `>perl -e "print $ARGV[0]" \\hostname \\hostname` [download] If there's a slash missing, it was removed before Perl got it.	[reply] [d/l]