windows path problem

anu_1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: windows path problem by toolic (Bishop) on Aug 19, 2010 at 15:08 UTC
Neither did you show actual Perl code, nor did you describe how it did not work for you. This will perform the substitution you requested: `use strict; use warnings; my $path = 'c:\abc\xyz'; $path =~ s/\\/\\\\/g; print $path; __END__ c:\\abc\\xyz` [download] The double quotes interpolate. If you use strict and warnings, you will get a warning message. On a side note, when posting, just include code within code tags, not all of your text.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: windows path problem by anu_1 (Acolyte) on Aug 20, 2010 at 03:53 UTC
Thanks for solving the problem.	[reply]
Re: windows path problem by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 19, 2010 at 15:34 UTC
I'm not sure why you'd need to do that. Normally, you need to double the slashes in a string literal so it produces a string with single backslashes. `>perl -le"print qq{c:\\abc\\xyz};" c:\abc\xyz` [download] You do not want to pass doubled slashes to `open`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: windows path problem by TomDLux (Vicar) on Aug 19, 2010 at 19:44 UTC
But you might want double quotes if you're going to be using the shell, as in `system( "dir $path" );` [download] rather than bypassing the shell `system( 'dir', $path )';` [download] Disclaimer: I'm a Unix guy. This would be true on Unix; does "MS-DOS 2010" still have a shell? -- `TTTATCGGTCGTTATATAGATGTTTGCA`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: windows path problem by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 19, 2010 at 20:13 UTC
No, you wouldn't. "\" is not special to the cmd shell, and it doesn't use "\" for escaping.	[reply]
Re: windows path problem by murugu (Curate) on Aug 19, 2010 at 15:33 UTC
anu_2, Your substituion regex is correct but as you have given $path value in double quotes it got interpolated. Change it to single quotes and it will work fine. Regards, Murugesan Kandasamy use perl for(;;);	[reply]
Re^2: windows path problem by anu_1 (Acolyte) on Aug 20, 2010 at 03:54 UTC
Thanks a lot	[reply]


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