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Re: passing filename path with spaces to subs Sandy 03-23-2008
Posted by Sandy on March 23, 2008, 11:22 pm
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 On Mar 23, 6:09 pm, news2...@wanadoo.es wrote:
> I have a basic question. It has to do with the way I pass files with
> spaces.

This has nothing to do with Perl. Just quote your argument so the
shell would not break it into two arguments:

--- t.pl ---
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $first = $ARGV[0];
my $second = $ARGV[1] || '';

print "First: '$first'\n";
print "Second: '$second'\n";
---

no quotes
> ./t.pl blah blah
First: 'blah'
Second: 'blah'

quotes
> ./t.pl "blah blah"
First: 'blah blah'
Second: ''

/sandy
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Posted by Ben Bullock on March 23, 2008, 11:37 pm
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> On Mar 23, 6:09 pm, news2...@wanadoo.es wrote:
>
> > I have a basic question. It has to do with the way I pass files with
> > spaces.
>
> This has nothing to do with Perl.

Excuse me for saying so, Sandy, but I'm not sure whether you read the
original poster's question carefully. His problem is with the second
script, and it is a purely Perl problem.



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