Portable code: path separator

[user2base]

I am currently writing Perl scripts that use path extensively and I use the "join" function a lot.
I want to use these scripts on both unix and windows and I would like to find a generic way to create my path:
the separator for unix is "/"
for windows it is "\"

Is there a way to do that ?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[PerlIsGood]

Look into the File::Spec and File::Basename modules. Both take into account the current OS/Platform that the code is being run on... Notorious P.I.G.

 

[MikeLacey]

Don't worry about it, use / even on WinXX boxes.

Perl understands where it's running. Mike

"Experience is the comb that Nature gives us, after we are bald."

Is that a haiku?
I never could get the hang
of writing those things.