Re^3: File::Find giving unexpected results under windows

Windows, yes.
find( sub { print $File::Find::name, "\n"; }, 'C:');
returns only files and directories in my home Documents dir, like
C:My Music
wheras with the slash I get all the contents of the C: drive, and the correspoding path looks like
C:/Documents and Settings/micgra/My Documents/My Music

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Re^4: File::Find giving unexpected results under windows by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 15, 2011 at 14:15 UTC
This is not surprising, as on Windows, `C:` and `C:/` are two different things. `C:` means "The current directory on the volume `C:` `C:/` means "The root directory on the volume `C:` So, if the current directory (on the volume) is not the root directory, the two will differ. Windows has more than one "current directory" per application. It tracks the current directory per application per volume.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^4: File::Find giving unexpected results under windows
by Corion (Patriarch) on Feb 15, 2011 at 14:15 UTC

This is not surprising, as on Windows, C: and C:/ are two different things.

C: means "The current directory on the volume C:

C:/ means "The root directory on the volume C:

So, if the current directory (on the volume) is not the root directory, the two will differ.

Windows has more than one "current directory" per application. It tracks the current directory per application per volume.

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