Re: [MacPerl] Path-separator (was: Newlines)

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 23.21 10/12/97, Terje Bless wrote:
>At 05:14 +0200 13-10-97, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>At 22.20 10/12/97, Terje Bless wrote:
>>>What if Perl core syntax sez that all functions that take a path as a
>>>parameter, expects the path to be in the traditional UNIX style.
>>
>>What if you have a file with a / in its name?
>
>Then you escape it. "chdir(/Weird MacHD/Name/with/a/\/in/it/);".

OK, now THAT is ugly.  Escape a filename character?  No thanks.

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