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Re: [MacPerl] $ basepath = "..."



sharon@didit.com wrote:

> 
> I'm not able to find the right directory...
> I tried with:
> $basepath = "/MacintoshHD/WebSTAR 3.0/nameofmyfolder"
> and with
> $basepath =  "/MacintoshHD/WebSTAR%203.0/nameofmyfolder",
> with   "%20" instead of the  blankspace  between  "WebSTAR" and "3.0"

The file path separator for Mac Os is a colon ':', not a slash. Also,
for my money, I avoid any file/directory names with spaces. One of
Perl's stength's is "cross-platform-ability." Using spaces in file names
tends to break this.

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