Front page | perl.perl5.porters |
Postings from May 2003
Edward Peschko <esp5@mdssirds.comp.pge.com> writes: > >ok, lets get a little bit closer - how about the logic inside perl to translate '/' to >'\' inside of perl code on win32 versa? Do you think that's bad? And if so - given that >'/' is an illegal character in a filename on windows, why? '/' is NOT an illegal character on Windows "C:/path/to/file" works just fine. It is only cmd.exe that gets upset because it is using ye olde CPM rules that /w is like UNIX's -w (so dir /w \foo\bar is akin to ls -l /foo/bar ) Sadly as cmd.exe is involved in system() and so on we do have to do conversions... -- Nick Ing-Simmons http://www.ni-s.u-net.com/Thread Previous | Thread Next