Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 06 May 2002 16:32:25 -0400 Christopher Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is anyone here already reporting this to perlbug? I am willing to, but if > >someone has already reported it, there is no need for a 'me too'. > > It wasn't yet clear to me if this was a bug, so I hadn't yet th

Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Christopher Murray
>Is anyone here already reporting this to perlbug? I am willing to, but if >someone has already reported it, there is no need for a 'me too'. It wasn't yet clear to me if this was a bug, so I hadn't yet thought of doing this. If you would be willing to submit the report, then I would defer to

Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Michael A Chase
On Mon, 06 May 2002 11:56:03 -0400 Christopher Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, unless I am totally overlooking something, this looks to be a > step > backward. Will the following regexp - > > $^O =~ m/^(?:qnx|nto)$/ > > cause a match under cygwin in perl 5.8)? I can't see how

Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Christopher Murray
Actually, unless I am totally overlooking something, this looks to be a step backward. Will the following regexp - $^O =~ m/^(?:qnx|nto)$/ cause a match under cygwin in perl 5.8)? I can't see how, but then again, I haven't actually run perl 5.8 to check what $^O returns. If not, then what

Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Gerrit P. Haase
Christopher schrieb: > My question concerns the use of File::Spec->canonpath in perl (for cygwin). > I did a search of the relevant mailing list archives, as well as google > newsgroups, but did not seem to come across any hits that seem to discuss > this specific issue. > As it currently stands

Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 10:07 AM 5/6/2002, Christopher Murray wrote: >As it currently stands, canonpath will not strip out multiple occurrences of // in >file paths when the script is executed from >within a cygwin shell. The relevant line from /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/File/Spec/Unix.pm >that strips out multiple /'s is

canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin

2002-05-06 Thread Christopher Murray
Hi all, I've been lurking on this list for just about 5 years now. Thanks everyone for a great piece of software. My question concerns the use of File::Spec->canonpath in perl (for cygwin). I did a search of the relevant mailing list archives, as well as google newsgroups, but did not seem