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Re: UNC vs. standard Perl functions

by ikegami (Patriarch)
on Mar 16, 2005 at 14:55 UTC ( [id://439966]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to UNC vs. standard Perl functions

>perl -e "print '\\server\share'"
\server\share

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Don't you mean

>perl -e "print '\\\\server\\share'"
\\server\share
>perl -e "print -d '\\\\server\\share'"
1

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Remember,
\ and ' must be espcaped with \ in single-quoted string literals.
\ and ", $ and @ must be espcaped with \ in double-quoted string literals.

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Re^2: UNC vs. standard Perl functions
by Errto (Vicar) on Mar 16, 2005 at 15:05 UTC
    Actually, double-\\ in a single-quoted string is interpreted as a single \ but otherwise \ does not need to be escaped. So this also works: 
    perl -e "print -d '\\\\server\share'"

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[d/l]

      True. Stylisticly, I prefer to escape them all, so I don't have to look at the context to know what \n means (for example). Adopting that convention would have avoided the OP's problem.

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Re^2: UNC vs. standard Perl functions
by crenz (Priest) on Mar 16, 2005 at 14:59 UTC

    I'm hitting myself now. Thanks, I forgot about that. I was so very convinced you don't have to quote \ in '' strings...

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      You don't, unless you want to have two of them together.
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