Re: [MacPerl] Using UNIX style filenames with MacPerl

[Brian "L." Matthews <blm@halcyon.com>]

Carl Johan Berglund writes:
|At 20.43 +0200 98-05-17, Brian "L." Matthews wrote:
|>I find the easiest way to deal with the problem is what someone else
|>suggested--set a variable at the start of the program that contains :
|>under MacPerl and / under Unix or Windows perl, and use it instead of
|>a separator in paths.
|$dlm = $^O eq 'MacOS' ? ':' : $^O =~ /^Win/ ? '\' : '/';

Yeah, like that. :-) Only, the backslash needs to be escaped: '\\',
however, unless Bill has changed something recently, a forward slash
works just as well.

Brian

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