Re: Cross platform compatability Part 1: Shells and Files

[ichimunki]

I've been under the impression that any decent port of Perl worked with / as a directory delimiter, no matter what the OS considered it to be.

If you want to be hardcore, you could store all pathnames using File::Basename and extract a filesystem specific string for FS calls.

[jepri]

Yes, you are quite correct. However my point wasn't to start up a new module war, just to point out how with a few smallish changes that are pretty much good programming practise anyway, that code can made cross-platform. I felt that saying someone should go and learn Yet Another Module would be a bit too much (does anyone else dread the task of reading through the docs for all modules related to a task, then trialling them all to see which ones work well?)

Update: chipmunk pointed out that '/' is not a directory separator for every good port - the Mac does things differently.

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