"Chas Owens" schreef:
> Tatiana Lloret Iglesias:
>> my $status = system("d:\\blast\\bin\\blastall -p blastn -i $file -d
>> $patDB -o $workdir\\blast_$blast_file_id.txt");
> snip
>
> Just an unrelated note to make your life a little easier, Perl
> automagically uses the right directory separator if you say
>
> system("d:/blast/bin/blastall", "-p", "blastn", "-i", $file, ...);
>
> That saves you from trying to make sure you have escaped all of the
> backslashes escaped correctly.
AFAIK, it is not that "Perl automagically uses the right directory
separator", but that the shell at hand understands both ways.
How does it work with MacOS9?
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