windows perl and paths

[flieckster]

i'm new to PERL on windows, always have been on a mac, so i'm having some issues. the code below works, but why do i have to escape all the slashes? is there a way around this?

#!/usr/bin/env perl -w

my $wilsonstiff = "Z:\/Partners\/Wilsons\/2push_test";
chdir( $wilsonstiff ) or warn "Cant chanage to Z:/Partners/Wilsons/2pu
+sh_test $!";
(@upload_wilsonstiff) = glob "*";
my $upload_count_wilsonstiff = @upload_wilsonstiff;
print "$upload_count_wilsonstiff files found\n";