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And a note on backslash (\) vs. forward slash (/):

Windows works fine with forward slashes, use them to get rid of all escaping issues of backslashes. As a welcome side-effect, this will make your code easier to port to other systems where the path sepearator is a forward slash. The only issue with forward slashes on Windows is that some old and/or stupid programs interpret forward slashes as option indicators, even when found in filenames. In that case, a simple

tr|/|\\| for @args;
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before passing @args to the problematic program should help.

Alexander

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In reply to Re: Strawberry Perl on Windows 10 file test operators do not work as expected by afoken
in thread Strawberry Perl on Windows 10 file test operators do not work as expected by fireblood

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