Just to clarify: the double-quotes should go around the argument on the command-line, not the variable in Perl.
-----Original Message----- From: Timothy Johnson Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:47 AM To: Nishi Bhonsle; beginners perl Subject: RE: How to ignore spaces in directory names? Put double-quotes around the directory name and you won't have a problem. -----Original Message----- From: Nishi Bhonsle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:44 AM To: beginners perl Subject: How to ignore spaces in directory names? <snip> How can I modify the line below so it would ignore the spaces in the directory name and still process it ? opendir DIR, $path or die "Can't open $path: $!"; P.S In the above line, $path is the directory path passed to the program As a command line argument. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
