Re: windows path problem

[ikegami]

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

You do not want to pass doubled slashes to open.

[TomDLux]

But you might want double quotes if you're going to be using the shell, as in

system( "dir $path" );

rather than bypassing the shell

system( 'dir', $path )';

Disclaimer: I'm a Unix guy. This would be true on Unix; does "MS-DOS 2010" still have a shell?

[ikegami]

No, you wouldn't. "\" is not special to the cmd shell, and it doesn't use "\" for escaping.