Oops, never mind, found Win32::GetShortPathName

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Nikko Odiseos
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 7:23 AM
To: Perl-win32-admin list (E-mail)
Subject: Sustituting shortpath


I am trying to get a regex to substitute any paths that have a space with
its likely shortpath translation.  In other words,
# here $iwhome's value could be "C:/Program files/something/iw-home";
$iwhome =~ s/\/(\w{6})\w.*\s?(\/.*)/$1~1$2/;
print $iwhome;

# Keeps giving me this: C:Progra~1/iw-home

but what I want is C:Progra~1/something/iw-home?

Thanks!

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