On 03 Oct 2007, at 15:12, John E. Malmberg wrote:
In this case it's a single directory yes, but i've generalized it
to 'fix unsafe paths' on VMS.
What would be the proper way to reconstruct the path after the
'/' trick on VMS?
File::Spec->catdir will put the path back together.
The '/' trick only works if the string is a directory name with
UNIX style directory delimiters or no directory delimiters. It is
to force vmsify to treat the input specification as UNIX.
There is a VMS::Filespec::unixpath() to do the appending of the '/'
to the specification, which will do a VMS::Filespec::vmsify() if
needed.
However it is not a good idea to call vmsify() on a pathname
returned by unixify(), and it is not a good idea to call unixify()
on a pathname returned by vmsify(). Because of the nature of the
conversion, not all file specifications can make the round trip.
I think that directory specifications can safely make the round
trip, but not ones containing filenames.
Thanks for explaining -- i've updated the code accordingly.
--
Jos Boumans
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