$Bill Luebkert wrote: > Sisyphus wrote: > > >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: "$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";
Forgot to fix your orig line: 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
