[Melbourne-pm] nearly there...

[Wesley Moore]

Another option, avoiding the regex entirely would be to use
Cwd::realpath to tidy the path up.

http://search.cpan.org/~kwilliams/PathTools-3.25/Cwd.pm#abs_path_and_friends

Wes

On Dec 20, 2007 4:05 PM, Jacinta Richardson <jarich at perltraining.com.au> wrote:
> Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > if it bothers you, then strip out the extras yourself:
> >
> >          my $full_path = "$dirname/$entry";
> >          $full_path =~ s=//=/=g;
>
> Except, don't use = as your separator.  It breaks people's brains.  Use
> curly braces instead:
>
>         $full_path =~ s{//}{/}g;
>
> or anything which doesn't already have a strong semantic map already
> (which is hard, because this is Perl, and Perl uses almost all the
> punctuation for something), and which can reasonably be assumed to be
> obvious to a 6 months Perl user.
>
> Curlies are great for pick-your-delimiter stuff:
>
>         q{single quoted}
>         qq{double quotes}
>         qx{quoted executable}
>         qr{precompiled regular expression}
>         m{match}
>         s{match}{replace}
>
> If absolutely necessary (for example the string/expression contains
> unmatched }s, I'll use ()s, []s, !s or at worst #s.
>
> All the best,
>
>
>         J
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