Re: windows path problem

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I'm not sure why you'd need to do that. Normally, you need to double the slashes in a string literal so it produces a string with single backslashes.

>perl -le"print qq{c:\\abc\\xyz};"
c:\abc\xyz
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You do not want to pass doubled slashes to open.

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Re^2: windows path problem by TomDLux (Vicar) on Aug 19, 2010 at 19:44 UTC
But you might want double quotes if you're going to be using the shell, as in `system( "dir $path" );` [download] rather than bypassing the shell `system( 'dir', $path )';` [download] Disclaimer: I'm a Unix guy. This would be true on Unix; does "MS-DOS 2010" still have a shell? -- `TTTATCGGTCGTTATATAGATGTTTGCA`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: windows path problem by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 19, 2010 at 20:13 UTC
No, you wouldn't. "\" is not special to the cmd shell, and it doesn't use "\" for escaping.	[reply]

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