I agree. Yeah, you could put a regex like
s{\\}{/}gmx
in there, but I'd fix it not work around it.
Brian Raven wrote:
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> [email protected]
> Sent: 24 February 2010 16:08
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: "Leaning Toothpicks" across OSs
>
>> O Wise Ones,
>
> Yeah, right.
>
>> (Slap me twice for this one--got my operating systems mixed up!)
>
> Happy to oblige.
>
>> This is one of those silly moments when I can't remember a simple
> trick, and I'm too cotton-pickin'
>> lazy to dig through all my Perl books to find it. I'm maintaining some
> old DOS code that has pathed
>> Linux filenames suffering from LTS. you know...
> \/usr\/local\/fardle\/whang\/dang\/doodle\/etc.....
>> I know there's a way to eliminate all that \/ stuff, but I can't think
> of it to save my life. I'll
>> gladly accept a Gibbs head-slap (for all you fellow NCIS fans out
> there), if it's accompanied by the
>> solution.
>
> Not sure what you mean by eliminate them. Couldn't you just use an
> editor to change them to /?
>
> HTH
>
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