At 21:04 +0100 2002.05.27, Alan Fry wrote:
>At 12:19 pm -0400 27/05/02, Chris Nandor wrote:
>> This works fine, with embedded spaces:
>>
>> my $f = "Bourque:Desktop Folder:file.txt";
>> open F, $f or die $!;
>> print scalar readline F;
>>
>>This does not:
>>
>> my $f = "Bourque:Desktop Folder:file.txt ";
>> open F, $f or die $!;
>> print scalar readline F;
>
>For the life of me, and please believe I am not being picky, I can't
>see the difference between the two. What am I missing?
Sorry! Space at the end of the filename. ":file.txt " <-- space here.
>>The third is to specify your open sign ('>', '<', etc.) and add a
>>trailing null:
>>
>> my $f = "Bourque:Desktop Folder:file.txt ";
>> open F, '<' . $f . "\0" or die $!;
>> print scalar readline F;
>>
>>The greater danger with C< open F, $f > is that the filename might begin
>>with a ">" or somesuch. Both three-arg open, and the method above with
>>"\0", solve both problems; but the latter method works in any version of
>>perl. I am not a big fan of three-arg open, but I have to admit it looks a
>>lot nicer. :-)
>
>Frankly a lot of problems would disappear would they not, if spaces
>in folder/file names were simply banned for ever to outer darkness?
:)
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