Bill Becker wrote:
> What would be the best way to determine this programmatically ???
The File::Spec module should lead you in the right direction.
$pathsep = File::Spec->catdir('');
yields ":" for $pathsep on my Mac (running OS 8.6), and "/" on my Linux
machine.
Cheers,
David Iberri
> Bruce Van Allen wrote:
>>
>> At 12:08 PM -0500 4/17/02, Tom Carr wrote:
>>> I wrote a simple perl script on macOS9.2 and want to move to an OSX box.
>>> When I run it on the OSX box, my path syntax is not working. Is the path
>>> syntax for OSX different than OS9?
>>>
>>> my $files_to_move = ':In'; #top level folder for search
>>>
>>> In this line, ":In" does not resolve. The "In" directory is in the same
>>> directory as the perl script.
>>
>> In OS X, Perl is uses the UNIX path separator, '/', instead of Mac's ':'.
>>
>> Also, paths are UNIX-style. If you use BBEdit, open the script or
>> file in question, and get the path from the toolbar button. That'll
>> give you an example to follow.
>>
