Problem with string manipulation

[kirk124]

Hi:
I am having problem turning the string "c:\/data/CDS/BCS3Lite" into "c:\\data\\CDS\BCS3Lite".

Someone suggest "s#[/\\]#\\\\#g" but this caused the string to become "c:\\\\data\\CDS\\BCS3Lite". Not what I wanted.

--thanks

 

[TopMach]

s#[/\\]+#\\\\#g;

 

[PaulTEG]

Kirk, a legitimate directory in Perl under Windoze is
c://data/CDS/BCS3Lite

HTH
Paul

 

[TopMach]

PaulTEG, can't use forward slashes to seperate directories in system calls such as exec(), system() and backticks. And "c://blah" (with 2 slashes) is not a legitimate windows directory.

 

[missbarbell]

I think Paul might have meant to say:

Kirk, a legitimate directory in Perl under Windoze is
/data/CDS/BCS3Lite

Perl internals will handle the / \ issue. However, this only works for your base volume. If you wanted to work with the D: volume and your base is C: then you will need to coerce the slashes into the correct format.

The TopMach's solution should be the one to go for.

Barbie
Leader of Birmingham Perl Mongers

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