On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:52, McMahon, Chris wrote:
> Hello...
> This script works fine on Unix:
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> use warnings;
> use strict;
> my $dir = "/usr/home/admin";
> my @files = glob ("$dir/*");
> print @files;
>
>
> But this script doesn't do right in Windows:
>
> use warnings;
> use strict;
> my $dir = "E:\\Documents and Settings\\cmcmahon\\Desktop";
> print "$dir\n";
> my @files = glob( "$dir\\*");
> print @files;
>
> The "print "$dir\n"" statement works fine, but the "print @files" statement
> yields the value "E:./Documentsand". Can someone explain what Windows needs
> here?
It's not windows, your spaces aren't escaped. Either replace them with
a \s (whitespace char) or properly escape them.
-Dan
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