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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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by swampyankee (Parson) on Jul 06, 2007 at 19:56 UTC

    Thanks; I wasn't aware of File::Spec::canonpath collapsing leading double slashes to one. I'll watch out for that in the future.

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