From:	Gurunandan R. Bhat	Date:	Wed Jul  1 01:20:45 2009
Subject:	Re: Substitution question

Are you sure that your substitution works? 
With the pattern you have quoted, you should be getting a "Search
pattern not terminated" error.

To answer your other question, patterns to search must be enclosed
inside '/'s (forward slashes). 
You can change pattern delimiters then you must precede them with an
'm'. For example to use the '|' character as a patter delimiter write it
as: m|<pattern>|

In any case why do you need to do this? Do you want to convert a Windows
File path into a Unix File path? If so, there might better ways to do
it. If you give a little background, some one here might be a able to
suggest a cleaner solution

HTH
 



On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 09:56 +0530, sanket vaidya wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>  
> 
> As a part of one program I need to get the current working directory. So I
> get this using cwd(). I want to replace forward slash (/) by backslash (\)
> in the path which I get because I work on windows.
> 
>  
> 
> Kindly look at the code below:
> 
>  
> 
> use warnings;
> 
> use strict;
> 
> use Cwd;
> 
>  
> 
> my $current_path = cwd();
> 
> print "$current_path";
> 
>  
> 
> $current_path =~ s|/|\|;
> 
> print "$current_path";
> 
>  
> 
> When I run this I get the below error:
> 
> Substitution replacement not terminated at line 8.
> 
>  
> 
> However if I replace 's|/|\|' with 's////\/' it works. Can anyone tell me
> why this happens & how to overcome it?
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Sanket Vaidya
> 
> 
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