Backslashes in NT scripts

[Tve]

Hi,

I keep having problems with backslashes in my NT perl scripts. Though this is a general, I can give a particular case that does not work...If somebody has a solution, it would reqlly help.

This does NOT work:
$input = "c:\\temp\\*;
@grep = <$input>;

While this does:
@grep = <c:\\temp\\*>;

This is for me not obvious at all!!!

Thanks,

Thierry [sig][/sig]

 

[tanderso]

Don't use backslashes. Backslashes are the escape character in Perl strings. Use the Unix directory structure which uses forward slashes and is natively understood by Perl.

eg. $input = &quot;c:/temp/&quot;; will be understood just fine by your Perl script.
Sincerely,

Tom Anderson
CEO, Order amid Chaos, Inc.

http://www.oac-design.com