J Krugman wrote:
> Is something like
>
> require '/path/to/some/Module.pm';
>
> portable?
Yes.
>
> I could have sworn that there was a perlvar that contained the OS's
> directory separator, but I can't find it, so either my memory is
> playing me a trick, or this variable was eliminated at some point.
No, on some OSs it's not even as simple as a single character.
> File::Spec is the generally accepted way to construct filenames
> portably. But I have read in a couple of places that it is OK to
> give Perl paths with the Unix directory separator like the one
> above even in systems that don't use this separator. If this is
> the case, then Perl must be doing the translation internally, which
> would greatly diminish the utility of File::Spec, and make the
> various OS-specific File::Spec::* modules all but useless.
>
> What gives?
File::Spec is mostly needed for doing stuff like constructing arguments
for system() or parsing filenames passed into Perl in the OS's native
format.
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