on Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:09:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jochen Berger)
wrote:
> I've got a problem with a Perl Script I wrote to find files
> matching a special pattern. It worked fine until I commented it.
> From that time on the program has got problems with that WIN32
> feature called "You want spaces in your file name? Then do it!".
> If the program finds a directory containing a space, it returns
> the path without spaces and backslashes. This doesn't make sense
> to me (especially because it worked before).
The following code works for me (note the forward slash):
#! perl -w
use strict;
my $dir = 'c:/My Documents/';
my $filter = '*.doc';
my $path = qq{"$dir$filter"};
my @files = glob($path);
> BTW: This program was supposed to work either under Unix AND
> Windows. Is there a chance to get the path separator for the
> current operating system like in Java (File.pathSeparator)?
See
perldoc File::Spec
for portable operations on filenames.
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