Susan Aurand wrote: > > If I want the following field to contain forwarded slashes - this is for a linux > box, as follows. > > $dir="//ITC/home/techs"; > > How do I get the forward slashes in there? > I have tried: > $dir ="'//ITC'"; > $dir ='"//ITC"'; > $dir =`"//ITC"`; > Nothing works. Help.
Slashes are not special in strings so you are probably doing something with the string that is causing the problem. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
