PERL Miscellaneous - Re: How to replace the "\" in "C:\myrootr\folder" with "/&qu

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Re: How to replace the "\" in "C:\myrootr\folder" with "/&qu

Asim Suter

2007-06-26, 10:03 pm

<sv2021@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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;
>

Replace the \ by \\ in the substitution.

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

Regards.
Asim Suter

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