[ILUG] Path separator in Perl

[Dave O Connor]

Someone called Peter McEvoy said on Fri, May 12, 2000 at 12:07:29PM +0100:
> Anyone know of a platform independant way of figuring out what the path
> separator is in Perl (/ vs \)?  (I'm developing on NT for use on a UNIX
> machine, and I'm doing a lot of stuuf with path manipulation/searching).
> 
The Special variable $^O is always equal to the OS type the script is running
on. So something like:

if($^O eq "WIN32")
{
	$seperator = "\";
}
else
{
	$seperator = "/";
}

It mightn't be "WIN32", I don't have a windows box to find that out, more's
the pity. Try printing it out first to find out, then use the if.

	- DoC