Re: Perl on Windows 2000

[moxliukas]

Most of the specific Perl issues on cross-platform development are mentioned in perlport manual. You should also look for bits and pieces of shell code that is very usually hardcoded into perl scripts under Unix systems.

I'd say the major differences are path separators, handling of binary data in files and use of external shell utilities.

[arturo]

And don't forget the accursed differences in the way even the NT command line interpreter ("shell" in Unix-speak) does(n't do) globbing with the examples of "one-liner" scripts.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, try

perl -pi.bak -e "s/UNIX/Windows/" *.txt

on Unix and any flavour of Windows.

OK, maybe that's not so helpful, but it bothers me so much =)

If not P, what? Q maybe?
"Sidney Morgenbesser"

[nimdokk]

Thanks, I'd forgotten about that.

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