Consider the following code:
print cwd . "\n";
$str= "../source"; # note the lower case 's'
chdir($str);
print cwd . "\n";
If my current directory is c:\parentdir\Source
(note the capital 'S'), the output of this will be:
c:/parentdir/Source c:/parentdir/source
This causes problems in a subroutine of mine that cares about the correct case of folder names. $str is passed in to my subroutine, so I can't know ahead of time whether it has the correct case. How do I determine the case-correct name of a path that matches $str
?
More detail here:
../source
is a pathological example, but it serves to
illustrate the problem. It occurs even if $str
is requesting a
folder other than the current one.rel2abs
, a glob search on
$str
, and others, but they all seem to return "source
" instead of
"Source
".$str/..
for all directories, convert them all to
absolute paths and compare them to an absolute path version of $str
,
but that seems like a hack. I was hoping for something more elegant.#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings; use strict;
use Cwd;
use File::Spec::Functions qw( canonpath );
use Win32;
print canonpath( cwd ), "\n";
chdir '../source';
print canonpath( cwd ), "\n";
print canonpath( Win32::GetLongPathName( cwd ) ), "\n";
C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\t\Source> t C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\t\Source C:\DOCUME~1\...\LOCALS~1\Temp\t\source C:\Documents and Settings\...\Local Settings\Temp\t\Source