Re: Mixing of forward and back slashes in paths?

-----Original Message----- 
From: L. Walsh
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2015 5:00 AM
To: Strawberry Perl
Subject: Mixing of forward and back slashes in paths?

> I recently was looking into a CPAN tester report
>
> P-1.1.24:
> - MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-64int / 5.20.2:
>   - FAIL 
> http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/bc273757-6c01-1014-a765-afcf632b568brt

You mean:
http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/bc273757-6c01-1014-a765-afcf632b568b

> The last win32 version I'd tested with was a bit ago
> @ in 5.14 and it didn't have this problem.

Sorry - I couldn't work out what it is that you're asking about.
And I couldn't spot anything in the testers report that indicates any 
problem with any of the paths.
Both "\" and "/" are acceptable (and essentially equivalent) where used 
(AFAICS).

If you do:
$test = "C:\this";

what do you expect to be output by:
printf "%s\n", $test;

And if you do:
$^X = "C:\Strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe";

what do you expect to be output by:
printf "5.20 path for perl: $^X???\n";

Cheers,
Rob