Converting all occurrences of \ to \\ in $dirname in &moveextrafiles oddity I'm trying to pass a directory name (entered from CLI) & create that directory on HD. The directory name is passed as a parameter to &moveextrafiles. This is the program output in AP522 Win32:

Couldn't make directory c\\:\\xtrafiles
c\\:\\xtrafiles

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and here is the code snippet

use strict;

my @extrafiles = ("blah.txt","wah.txt");

&moveextrafiles(quotemeta("c:\extrafiles"),@extrafiles);

exit;

sub moveextrafiles
{
    my ($dirname,@filestomove) = @_;
    
    # change \ to \\ e.g. c:\extrafiles to c:\\extrafiles
    
    $dirname =~ s#\\#\\\\#g;
    
    print "$dirname\n";
    
    mkdir $dirname,0777 or die "Couldn't make directory $dirname\n";
    
    # Dir created.  Now move files.
    # print join("\n",@filestomove);
}

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any advice about where that illegal char is coming from & how to replace / with //'s?

TIA!

dmtelf

In reply to Converting all occurrences of \ to \\ oddity by dmtelf

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