Jan 9, 2000, 10:11 PM Post #2 of 3 Actually, you can also use
the first example you wrote on Win32: $path = "/home/www/blah";
From "Learning Perl on Win32 Systems" Chapter 10.3 - Using
Pathnames and Filenames: "The only portable delimiter is the
slash. Of course, if you're using drive letters, your script
isn't really portable anyway. <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"
face="Arial,Helvetica,sans serif">code:</font><HR> "c:\\temp" #
backslash (escaped for double quoted string) 'c:\temp' #
backslash (single quoted string) "c:/temp" # slash - no escape
needed </pre><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> There are a couple of tradeoffs
associated with either approach. First we look at the backslash:
if you use the backslash to delimit paths, you have compatibilty
problems with scripts that need to run on UNIX systems. You also
need to remember to escape the backslash inside of double-quoted
strings (or use single-quoted strings, because they are not
interpolated). Finally, you need to remember to use a slash if
you're outputting URL paths."