PERL Beginners - Glob with spaces

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Glob with spaces

Dave DiGregorio

2006-01-25, 6:57 pm

Is there a way to glob if the directory path has spaces?

The following does not work

$sourcePath = "C:/Documents and Settings/xyz/abc ;

files = glob $sourcePath ;

Thanks

David R. DiGregorio

Vocollect

703 Rodi Road

Pittsburgh, PA 15235

P. 412-349-2440

ddigregorio@vocollect.com

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Chas Owens

2006-01-25, 6:57 pm

On 1/25/06, DiGregorio, Dave <ddigregorio@vocollect.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to glob if the directory path has spaces?
>
> The following does not work
>
> $sourcePath =3D "C:/Documents and Settings/xyz/abc ;
>
> files =3D glob $sourcePath ;

This seems to work:

my @files =3D glob("C:/Documents\\\ and\\\ Settings/user/*");
print "[$_]\n" for @files;

Paul Lalli

2006-01-26, 7:55 am

Dave DiGregorio wrote:
> Is there a way to glob if the directory path has spaces?

The exact same way you'd do it on the command line.

> The following does not work
>
> $sourcePath = "C:/Documents and Settings/xyz/abc ;
>
> files = glob $sourcePath ;

You need to tell the command line interpreter that you have one
argument, that the whole string is your argument. On the command line,
you have to enclose the whole thing in quotes, or backslash each space.
You have to do the same thing in Perl:

@files = glob "\"$sourcePath\"";
or, more readable:
@files = glob qq{"$sourcePath"};

That is, the string you pass to glob has to actually have the ""
surrounding it.

Paul Lalli

Paul Lalli

2006-01-26, 7:55 am

Chas Owens wrote:
> On 1/25/06, DiGregorio, Dave <ddigregorio@vocollect.com> wrote:
>
> This seems to work:
>
> my @files = glob("C:/Documents\\\ and\\\ Settings/user/*");

Yes, that does work, but you're creating far too much work for
yourself.
If you put your string in single quotes rather than double, there's no
need for all the extra backslashes:

my @files = glob ('C:/Documents\ and\ Settings/user/*');

Or, my preference, surround the whole thing in quotes so you don't need
to backslash anything:

my @files = glob(qq{"C:/Documents and Settings/user/*"});

Paul Lalli

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