| Beschreibung |
Path::Class is a module for manipulation of file and directory specifications
(strings describing their locations, like '/home/ken/foo.txt' or
'C:\Windows\Foo.txt') in a cross-platform manner. It supports pretty much
every platform Perl runs on, including Unix, Windows, Mac, VMS, Epoc, Cygwin,
OS/2, and NetWare.
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The well-known module File::Spec also provides this service, but it's sort of
awkward to use well, so people sometimes avoid it, or use it in a way that
won't actually work properly on platforms significantly different than the
ones they've tested their code on.
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In fact, Path::Class uses File::Spec internally, wrapping all the unsightly
details so you can concentrate on your application code. Whereas File::Spec
provides functions for some common path manipulations, Path::Class provides an
object-oriented model of the world of path specifications and their underlying
semantics. File::Spec doesn't create any objects, and its classes represent
the different ways in which paths must be manipulated on various platforms
(not a very intuitive concept). Path::Class creates objects representing
files and directories, and provides methods that relate them to each other.
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