Re: Windows paths in glob

Dmitry wrote:
OK, so there's a well-known difficulty with handling Windows-style paths in glob: it doesn't like backslashes, nor does it like spaces. One solution to that is to use Unix-style paths:

glob('C:\Documents and Settings\*'); # Doesn't work
glob('C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/*'); # Works

Problem is, the rest of Perl's built-in file-handling functionality behaves the other way around. For instance, with -d:

-d 'C:\Documents and Settings'; # Works
-d 'C:/Documents\ and\ Settings'; # Doesn't work

Question: is there any way to use the same path string with glob and with the rest of Perl, without having to convert them back and forth?

perldoc File::DosGlob
perldoc File::Spec
perldoc File::Basename


John
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