[MacPerl] Slashes (Was: Using UNIX style filenames with MacPerl)

[Carl Johan Berglund <carl.johan.berglund@adverb.se>]

At 16.30 +0200 98-05-18, Gerald Young wrote:
>On 1998-05-18 03:44, L. Brian  Matthews <blm@halcyon.com> contributed:
>>Yeah, like that. :-) Only, the backslash needs to be escaped: '\\',
>>however, unless Bill has changed something recently, a forward slash
>>works just as well.
>
>Just wondering (getting slightly off topic now):
>
>Obviously the DOS version of Perl can handle UNIX style "/" pathnames,
>whereas the underlying filesystem (DOS) requires the "\" as dir seperator.

This ability in Perl to treat '/' as '\', is it present in all DOS/Windows
Perl ports?


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