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# File::Spec::Win32

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- SEE ALSO

## NAME

File::Spec::Win32 - methods for Win32 file specs

## SYNOPSIS

     require File::Spec::Win32; # Done internally by File::Spec if needed

## DESCRIPTION

See File::Spec::Unix for a documentation of the methods provided there. This package overrides the implementation of these methods, not the semantics.

devnull
  Returns a string representation of the null device.
tmpdir
  Returns a string representation of the first existing directory from the following list:

          $ENV{TMPDIR}
          $ENV{TEMP}
          $ENV{TMP}
          C:/temp
          /tmp
          /

catfile
  Concatenate one or more directory names and a filename to form a complete path ending with a filename
canonpath
  No physical check on the filesystem, but a logical cleanup of a path. On UNIX eliminated successive slashes and successive "/.".
splitpath

          ($volume,$directories,$file) = File::Spec->splitpath( $path );
          ($volume,$directories,$file) = File::Spec->splitpath( $path, $no_file );

  Splits a path in to volume, directory, and filename portions. Assumes that the last file is a path unless the path ends in '\\', '\\.', '\\..' or $no_file is true. On Win32 this means that $no_file true makes this return ( $volume, $path, undef ).

  Separators accepted are \ and /.

  Volumes can be drive letters or UNC sharenames (\\server\share).

  The results can be passed to the catpath entry elsewhere in this document to get back a path equivalent to (usually identical to) the original path.

splitdir
  The opposite of the catdir() entry elsewhere in this document.

          @dirs = File::Spec->splitdir( $directories );

  $directories must be only the directory portion of the path on systems that have the concept of a volume or that have path syntax that differentiates files from directories.

      Unlike just splitting the directories on the separator, leading empty and
      trailing directory entries can be returned, because these are significant
      on some OSs. So,

          File::Spec->splitdir( "/a/b/c" );

      Yields:

          ( '', 'a', 'b', '', 'c', '' )

catpath
  Takes volume, directory and file portions and returns an entire path. Under Unix, $volume is ignored, and this is just like catfile(). On other OSs, the $volume become significant.

## SEE ALSO

the File::Spec manpage

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