> Understood, but I know that the space within a
> directory name must have the \ otherwise it won't work, but
> if I try say ( for my testing purposes):
>
> $MyLoc = "d:/00Common\ Perl/";
> @filelist = glob($MyLoc . "pl0*.pl");
>
> The only thing that prints is
> d:/00Common
> and nothing else.
> I also tried:
> @filelist = glob("d:/00Common\ Perl/pl0*.pl");
>
> It had the same results of D:/00Common
>
Interesting, must be a glob() thing ???
> So it may have something to do with how the glob parses
> the input passed to it.
>
> If someone can show us, I would be greatly appreciated
> since I thought that I only need escape to make it work.
>
> Note: I went into File::Glob and it gives the following:
>
>
> Since v5.6.0, Perl's CORE::glob() is implemented in terms of
> bsd_glob(). Note that they don't share the same
> prototype--CORE::glob() only accepts a single argument. Due
> to historical reasons, CORE::glob() will also split its
> argument on whitespace, treating it as multiple patterns,
> whereas bsd_glob() considers them as one pattern.
>
> So I did the following:
>
> use File::Glob qw(:globally :glob);
>
> @filelist = bsd_glob("d:/00Common\ Perl/pl0*.pl",
> GLOB_QUOTE); foreach ( @filelist ) {
> printf "%-s\n", $_;
> }
>
> Now it will work as it should and displays the files as it
> should. Itried without the GLBO_QUOTE and it gave the same
> results. Just a fyi.
>
Interesting, I'll have to file that away for later use if need be!
> Wags ;)
>
>
>
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