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Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 11:43:15 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
Organization: My own little world...
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Subject: Re: example needed pls: `cygpath -c <HANDLE>'
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Brian Dessent wrote:
 
> my $foo = quotemeta($MS_path_filename);
> chomp (my $cygpath = chomp `cygpath -u $foo`);
> # now $cygpath should be usable

Whoops, that second line should be: 

chomp (my $cygpath = `cygpath -u $foo`);

I sure wish you could just do something like `"cygpath -u" .
quotemeta($path)` or qr{cygpath -u quotemeta($path)} but neither of
these is valid, so you have to create a temp variable first.

Brian

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