On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:41:04PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> rt.perl.org 24691 is about CPAN.pm saying that a path with a leading space
> is not absolute. The issue is File::Spec... maybe. file_name_is_absolute() i
> does not recognize " /foo" as being absolute.
>
> $ perl -wle 'use File::Spec; print File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute("
> /foo")'
>
> $ perl -wle 'use File::Spec; print File::Spec->file_name_is_absolute("/foo")'
> 1
>
> canonpath() does not clean up leading or trailing space.
>
> $ perl -wle 'use File::Spec; print File::Spec->canonpath("/foo")'
> /foo
>
> $ perl -wle 'use File::Spec; print File::Spec->canonpath(" /foo")'
> /foo
> $ perl -wle 'use File::Spec; print q["].File::Spec->canonpath(" /foo ").q["]'
> " /foo "
>
> Should it? Does leading and trailing space have any meaning in a Unix path?
Certainly.
$ mkdir ' '
$ touch ' /foo '
$ ls -lRQ
".":
total 4
drwxrwxr-x 2 pjcj pjcj 4096 2005-07-12 11:01 " "
"./ ":
total 0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pjcj pjcj 0 2005-07-12 11:01 "foo "
So it seems to me that File:Spec is doing the right thing here.
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