Scripting in perl on a Windows OS and spaces in file names.
I'm pretty sure this has been covered many times here, and I believe
there are modules and such devoted to the problem but searching on
www.cpan.org
with various search strings hasn't turned up something specifically for
this problem,
Harry Putnam wrote:
Scripting in perl on a Windows OS and spaces in file names.
I'm pretty sure this has been covered many times here, and I believe
there are modules and such devoted to the problem but searching on
www.cpan.org
with various search strings hasn't turned up something specificall
From: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Scripting in perl on a Windows OS and spaces in file names.
>
> I'm pretty sure this has been covered many times here, and I believe
> there are modules and such devoted to the problem but searching on
>www.cpan.org
> with various search strings hasn't
"Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try to write the script you need and come back if you run into
> problems.
This isn't in keeping with Johns point about using opendir/readdir but
I'm not sure I followed that anyway.
Here is an example of problems before even getting to spaces. Do
Harry Putnam <> wrote:
: Here is an example of problems before even getting to spaces.
: Doesn't this mean that some kind of preprocessing must take
: place?
:
: #!C:\Perl\bin -w
Shame! Always use strictures (except when mumble, mumble,
mumble).
use strict;
: ## This is the format that
"Charles K. Clarkson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> You have three choices.
[...] snipped techniques
So back to my original question:
Is there a module or something that takes care of that pre
processing for me?
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Harry Putnam <> wrote:
: So back to my original question:
: Is there a module or something that takes care of that pre
: processing for me?
There is no pre-processing. I use this same idiom on
either platform. What do you mean by pre-processing?
my $file = 'foo/bar/baz/no pre-processing
Harry,
You have three choices.
[...] snipped techniques
So back to my original question:
Is there a module or something that takes care of that pre
processing for me?
I think you misunderstood. The problem with your script is not the
spaces in the string. It's that you used a single b
