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Hi,
Can someone help me. I know this should be easy but I coulnt get it
working.

I want to replace the "\" backslash character in a string e.g: my
$test = "C:\myroot\folder"; with forward slash "/"

This is what my snippet, which seems to be not doing anything....
$test =~ s|\|/|g;

wrote:
> I want to replace the "\" backslash character in a string e.g: my
> $test = "C:\myroot\folder"; with forward slash "/"

That needs to be written

my $test = "C:\\myroot\\folder";

or

my $test = 'C:\myroot\folder';

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Asim Suter wrote:
> <> wrote:
>> I want to replace the "\" backslash character in a string e.g: my
>> $test = "C:\myroot\folder"; with forward slash "/"
>>
>> This is what my snippet, which seems to be not doing anything....
>> $test =~ s|\|/|g;
>
> Replace the \ by \\ in the substitution.

Or even better: use the more suitable and more efficient tr/// operator:

$test =~ tr|\\|/|;

> As \ has special special meaning - you need to "escape" it.

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wrote:
> I want to replace the "\" backslash character in a string e.g: my
> $test = "C:\myroot\folder"; with forward slash "/"

Do you really have a file that is named
c:myroot[formfeed]older
where [formfeed] indicates the form feed character?
Or did you mean
$test = 'C:\myroot\folder';
If so, then please be advised that using backward slashes in filenames is
not a bad idea (you just saw one reason why) and you should use forward
slashes instead, even on Windows which will happily work with forward
slashes, too.

> This is what my snippet, which seems to be not doing anything....
> $test =~ s|\|/|g;

Really? For me it is generating two error messages:
Unrecognized escape \m passed through at [...]
Substitution replacement not terminated at [...]
You didn't get those?

Your substitute command will replace globally a vertical bar followed by a
forward slash against .... well, you didn't write the substitution string.

Did you mean
$test =~ s|\\|/|g;
instead?
Anyway, for this kind of transliteration the tr() command is more suitable:
$test =~ tr|\\|/|;

jue