Sisyphus wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "$Bill Luebkert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>My sentiments exactly - it's time we find out the full paths to these > > files > >>and get it straight. Personally, I prefer to never use \'s unless > > absolutely > >>necessary and then I convert them at the last possible moment. >> > > > Yeah - I don't like 'em much either. But I used to keep doing things like: > > system 'copy somefile ../subfolder/somefile'; > > and then even single backslashes are no good if I:
Just add one line (or two in this case since I broke it down) and you're in: my $cmd = "copy somefile ..\subfolder\somefile"; $cmd =~ s!/!\\\\!g; system $cmd; > system "copy somefile ..\subfolder\somefile"; > > so I sometimes tend to use double backslashes and then I don't have to think > about anything .... except whether I'm on Linux or Windows (and I'm usually > not sufficiently mindful of that, either :-) -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] / ) /--< o // // Castle of Medieval Myth & Magic http://www.todbe.com/ -/-' /___/_<_</_</_ http://dbecoll.tripod.com/ (My Perl/Lakers stuff) _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
