Re^5: DBD::CSV::prepare() problems

Go ahead and use / on every OS you have

Nonsense! Not every OS uses the forward slash (/) as path separator.

DOS and Windows (and OS/2, I think) allow to use both backslash (\) and forward slash, so you can use the forward slash on Windows, except when you try to use external tools that expect that you only use the backslash.

On a classic, non-X MacOS, you will fail miserably because MacOS uses single colons (:).

Same game, different rules with VMS: / works only in Unix emulation, the native interface uses single colons, double colons (C<::>), square brackets ([]), angle brackets (<>), periods (C<.>), and semicolons (C<;>) to separate the parts of a fully qualified file name.

File::Spec is not perfect, but it still is better than simply using the forward slash everywhere.

Alexander

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Re^6: DBD::CSV::prepare() problems by Anonymous Monk on Aug 27, 2012 at 00:34 UTC
Nonsense! Not every OS uses the forward slash (/) as path separator. So what, the OP doesn't have one of those On a classic, non-X MacOS, you will fail miserably because MacOS uses single colons (:). No you won't, you'll get a nice error message, and then you cheerfully fix it -- or it will cheerfully work and you'll get a file with slashes in the name -- no misery anywhere Same game, different rules with VMS ... Same ol' same ol' File::Spec is not perfect, but it still is better than simply using the forward slash everywhere. File::Spec is great, Path::Class is better, but using forward slashes on unix/linux/windows will work 99% of the time	[reply]

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Re^6: DBD::CSV::prepare() problems
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 27, 2012 at 00:34 UTC

Nonsense! Not every OS uses the forward slash (/) as path separator.

So what, the OP doesn't have one of those

On a classic, non-X MacOS, you will fail miserably because MacOS uses single colons (:).

No you won't, you'll get a nice error message, and then you cheerfully fix it -- or it will cheerfully work and you'll get a file with slashes in the name -- no misery anywhere

Same game, different rules with VMS ...

Same ol' same ol'

File::Spec is not perfect, but it still is better than simply using the forward slash everywhere.

File::Spec is great, Path::Class is better, but using forward slashes on unix/linux/windows will work 99% of the time

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