Re: XP and slashes?

I determined that XP doesn't let you use forward slashes interchangeably with backward slashes

You are mistaken. Not only Perl but the actual OS supports "/" as a separator.

C:\Temp>echo foo >foo.txt

C:\Temp>perl -e"open my $fh, '<', $ARGV[0] or die $!; print <$fh>;" c:
+\temp\foo.txt
foo

C:\Temp>perl -e"open my $fh, '<', $ARGV[0] or die $!; print <$fh>;" c:
+/temp/foo.txt
foo
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I'm on WinXP. I'm not using cygwin, however. And I don't know how cygwin sees the file system, but I quick lookaround indicates /cygwin/c/Perl/site/lib/Chess/PGN/db/ECO should work.

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Re^2: XP and slashes? by hsmyers (Canon) on Apr 05, 2009 at 00:16 UTC
See answer earlier. As for being mistaken here is an example: `C:\>cd c:/perl The system cannot find the path specified. C:\>cd c:\perl` [download] And while I would certainly never claim to not be mistaken early and often, I'm not about that. This only applies to the command line as near as I can tell so not relevant to my problem... --hsm "Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: XP and slashes? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 05, 2009 at 05:45 UTC
This only applies to the command line as near as I can tell so not relevant to my problem... Indeed. Your example only shows that "cd" doesn't accept "/" as a separator. You'll find the same for most of MS's command-line tools because they use "/" to mark options. However, if it's quoted... `C:\>cd "c:/temp" C:\Temp>` [download] Update: Actually, it works unquoted for me too. `C:\>cd c:/temp C:\Temp>` [download] Even if the slash is the first character `C:\>cd /temp C:\Temp>` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: XP and slashes? by cdarke (Prior) on Apr 05, 2009 at 14:57 UTC
The underlying Win32 API accepts either / or \, and has done since at lease NT 3.1, however some applications only take \. cmd.exe is one of them, of which cd is a built-in. MS-DOS and PC-DOS used to be the same (although I doubt there can be many people using the 16-bit DOS VMs any more).	[reply]
Re^4: XP and slashes? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 05, 2009 at 22:24 UTC
however some applications only take \. cmd.exe is one of them, of which cd is a built-in. I proved otherwise earlier.	[reply]