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Re: canonpath in perl as it relates to cygwin


At 10:07 AM 5/6/2002, Christopher Murray wrote:
>As it currently stands, canonpath will not strip out multiple occurrences of // in file paths when the script is executed from
>within a cygwin shell.  The relevant line from /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/File/Spec/Unix.pm that strips out multiple /'s is 
>
>$path =~ s|/+|/|g unless ($^O eq 'cygwin');
>
>I assume this regexp substitution is ignored for cygwin because we would not want to munge instances where // refers 
>to a network share (something regular unix doesn't need to worry about), but is it wise to also ignore all multiple forward
>slashes when they occur in the middle of a path?  Or is this simply a non-issue because, for the most part, it seems like 
>most (if not all?)  programs don't really seem to care about multiple path separators?


Right.  A sequence of multiple path separators is condensed into 1 for all 
but the first.  There the convention is to do something that is application
specific.



>For what it's worth, canonpath in ExtUtils::MM_Unix (and MM_Cygwin), uses
>
>$path =~ s|(?<=[^/])/+|/|g;
>
>which seems to do what I expect (leaves // at the front of a path alone, but replaces all remaining // with /).  The only weakness I see with this is that it will not replace ///shareName/path with //shareName/path, but that is a minor matter, at least as it concerns me.


Sorry, can't help here.  Reading complex regular expressions hurts my
head! ;-)


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