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

[pvhp@forte.com (Peter Prymmer)]

pudge@pobox.com, mac-perl@iis.ee.ethz.ch
Subj:	Re: [MacPerl] Path-separator (was: Newlines)

Chris Nandor wrote:

>>>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.

Someone who obviously never scripted for a Microsoft OS?

Take more pity than usual: every time you turn around it is '\\' vs '\' vs 
'\/' vs '/' x (permutations to get qq()).  It gets really whacky really fast 
especially when you try to combine with a unix like shell and/or cmd.exe.
"How do you want to punctuate today?"

Peter Prymmer

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