David Wagner wrote:
> Dan Muey wrote:
>>>> @filelist = glob("w:/stleg/Colorado/House_98/*.htm");
>>>>
>>>> And when I rename the directory to "House 98" (space instead of
>>>> underscore), the following does not:
>>
>> The reason is you escaped the space in $MyLoc but not in /House 98/.
>
> 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):
>
> $MyLoc = "d:/00Common\ Perl/";
The backslash disappears immediately as part of the usual double-quotish
interpolation.
> So it may have something to do with how the glob parses the input passed
> to it.
Nope -- just the double-quotes.
% touch '/tmp/path with spaces'
% cat glob.pl
my %pats = (
good => '/tmp/path\ with\ space*',
bad => "/tmp/path\ with\ space*",
ugly => "/tmp/path\\ with\\ space*"
);
local ($\, $,) = ("\n", " :: ");
while (my ($k,$v) = each %pats) {
print $k, $v, glob($v);
}
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