backslash to forward slash conversion

Hello there ....

At present I am trying to make my application in perl to work
on both linux and Windows NT.
In order to get the current working directory, in Linux I used a method which did some manipulation on the REQUEST_URI environment variable and returns the current working directory.

In Windows NT I didn't find such an environment variable .
Instead I found a PATH_INFO variable. But there the slashes
were in the reverse direction. I would like to know whether
Perl has got any function to handle the conversion of backslashes
to forward slashes.

Thanks in advance...
Dups

You could use a simple substitution regular expression:


Depending on your code, you made need to employ certain modifiers. The above code would be could for say switching one Windows directory path at a time.

If you are trying to get them all in one shot with some kind of loop, you could simply use the 'g' modifier in a loop. The 'g' modifier would catch all occurences of '\', or whatever string is being matched.


Hope that helps.

Hello..

Thank You very much dsb.
I hope Perl has got no special functions to do that.

Thanks again...
Dups