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

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 13.58 -0500 1999.01.19, David Turley wrote:
>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.

Yes, but as long as the space is not at the beginning or end of the entire
path, you should be OK.  Unix can handle a space in a filename fine, too.
Worse is putting a slash in the file name.  :)

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