backslashes sometimes unnecessary

[soonix]

in reply to Single Quotes - how to avoid any escape processing?

This isn't perl specific, but I think it's helpful to know that many Windows APIs (including several Microsoft ones) do accept forward slashes as well.

Try

    perl -e "print join '  ', glob 'C:/Windows/sys*'"

and enjoy :-)

Although this does not solve your original issue, perhaps it helps alleviate the problem at hand?

[tobyink]

IIRC all the old DOS APIs accepted "/" as path delimiters, it was just command.com itself that did not.

[LanX]

see Why is the DOS path character "\"? for background infos. :)