Duffy, Peter <> wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Thanks very much for that. Apologies for missing the \s and \t - I > should have spotted those: I take your point about using "strict" and > "warnings". Almost immediately after sending the original post, I > noticed that I'd used double-quotes and tried replacing them with > single-quotes: however, in this case, splitpath put the entire path > into the $filename slot. > > I did see the bit in the doc about $volume being set to '' in systems > with no concept of a volume. However, my assumption was that, in my > example, splitpath would ignore the "T:" and split the rest into path > and filename. Basically, given that this module is allegedly to > assist with portability across platforms, I would have thought that > the parsing would be identical on all platforms, and be comprehensive > enough to recognise all supported formats: only the output would be > in terms of the current platform. There doesn't seem to be a lot of > point in each platform-specific submodule only being able to > recognise the format native to that platform.
The trouble with that is that it is not possible, in general, to parse a path string without knowing its platform. In your example, the characters ":" and "\" are not path separators on Linux, but they are valid as part of a path element. File::Spec simply tries to provide a (mostly) platform independent interface to an underlying platform specific implementation. You might get better results if you used a more platform independent path string, for instance "/" is a valid path separator on both Linux and win32, but how would you expect your script to make sense of Win32 path names on Linux, and vice versa? HTH -- Brian Raven ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message and any attachments without retaining a copy. Any unauthorised copying, disclosure or distribution of the material in this e-mail is strictly forbidden. _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
