On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 04:34:56PM -0000, Warren Dodge wrote:
>  I just encountered a problem in a script that parses 
>  the PATH variable and checks to make sure each entry 
>  has a directory.
>  
>  It turns out that some program entered something like this
>  as a PATH entry.   "C:\PATH\BIN"
>  
>  The quotes were included. I tested this at a CMD prompt 
>  and indeed it does work as expected. The quotes are shown in a 
>  set path  command.
>  
>  It seems the -d operator in perl doesn't handle this properly
>  
>  if ( -d "\"C:/temp\"" )
>  {
>    print "OK1\n";
>  }
>  else
>  {
>    print "BAD1\n";
>  }
>  if ( -d "C:/temp" )
>  {
>    print "OK2\n";
>  }
>  else
>  {
>    print "BAD2\n";
>  }
>  
>  So I wanted to let you know so perhaps the low level stuff 
>  could be enhanced.

Thanks for the report.

On reflection, I don't think the basic OS functions should be messed with
the emiulate the particular quirks associated with teh $PATH environment
variable.

Dave.

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