On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 03:14, Irfan Sayed<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am stuck on parsing file name if it has space.
> I have file name as : file system.proj
> now this file contains space between worf file and system
>
> now i want to do ceratin operation on this file
> but whenever i give this file name in any command then it fails saying that
> file does not exist. it is only considering file word and not the whle file
> name.
>
> i dont know how to handle this sitiuation . i tried applying double quotes to
> file name but no luck.
>
> here is my actual code:
>
> $vd="file system.proj";
> $svn = "svn delete $vd";
> if (system($svn)) {
> print "Deletion of vdproj file failed\n";
> exit 1;
> }
>
> plz advide
>
> Regards
> Irf
>
>
>
This is one of the reasons to not use the single argument version of
system, exec, etc. What you need to say is
if (system "svn", "delete", $vd) {
You could also say
if (system "svn delete '$vd'") {
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