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Use forward slashes (aka virgules). Generally, Perl will treat / as the path delimiter in Windows; see here. Quoting: "Since all DOS and Windows versions since something like MS-DOS 2.0 or so have treated / and \ the same in a path, you might as well use the one that doesn't clash with Perl--or the POSIX shell, ANSI C and C++, awk, Tcl, Java, or Python, just to mention a few. POSIX paths are more portable, too." (perlfaq5)

Note that different shells have different quoting conventions, and different methods of determining when variable substitution should take place.

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Re^2: How to write a perl script to work on many OS(s)
by archfool (Monk) on Jul 06, 2007 at 15:06 UTC
    Forward slashes generally work in Perl MSWin32. There are a few corner cases where this doesn't work. ALSO... don't forget that windows shares need to start with two slashes... I believe File::Spec::canonpath will collapse them down to one, causing problems.
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      Thanks; I wasn't aware of File::Spec::canonpath collapsing leading double slashes to one. I'll watch out for that in the future.

      emc

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Re^2: How to write a perl script to work on many OS(s)
by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 06, 2007 at 05:42 UTC

    Fine for *nix and DOS/Windows, but not so good for Mac and others maybe?

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      For Mac OS 9 and older you should use ":" as a path separator, but Mac OS X uses "/" just fine.
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