Re: file with a blank in its name

While I agree with everyone that suggests readdir over glob for anything but a quick hack, is this a platform-dependent problem (ie, a shell thing)? Both 5.6 and 5.005_03's glob work fine for me on Linux:

chh@scallop ~> touch "Foo bar"
chh@scallop ~> perl -le 'print grep /\s/, <*>'
Foo bar
chh@scallop ~> perl -le '@f = <*>; print grep /\s/, @f'
Foo bar
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I'm on the road and don't have access to a Windows box to check, but I seem to remember something funky about Win32's glob and long filenames.

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RE: Re: file with a blank in its name by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 06, 2000 at 01:06 UTC
It works for me with both ActiveState 522 and 613 (that's 5.005_3 and 5.6, for those of you keeping score) on NT. My test program was: `my @files = grep /\s/, <*>; foreach my $file (@files) { print ">>$file<<\n"; }` [download] On both versions, that caught long filenames successfully. On a Linux box with GNU bash, version 1.14.7(1) and Perl 5.005_3, it works as well. (since the Win98 box has become a Linux Distribution Installer Testbed, I can't report on that. :)	[reply] [d/l]
RE: Re: file with a blank in its name by BBQ (Curate) on May 06, 2000 at 22:56 UTC
I had heard in the past that ActiveState's distribution had a quirky glob, it that it would only return the correct values for "." instead of "", but I have just run a test on a NT box and this is what I got... Orders, Sir? cd \usr\local Orders, Sir? ls -la total 0 -d---- 0 3-Mar-100 03:28 . -d---- 0 3-Mar-100 03:28 .. -d---- 0 3-Mar-100 03:29 apache -d---- 0 15-Apr-100 21:37 bin -d---- 0 7-Dec-99 03:34 cgi-bin -d---- 0 6-Dec-99 21:58 ftpd ad---- 0 24-Feb-100 18:24 httpd -d---- 0 7-Dec-99 02:19 iissamples -d---- 0 22-Apr-100 22:45 mysql -d---- 0 6-Dec-99 21:58 scripts -d---- 0 7-Dec-99 21:11 uia Orders, Sir? perl foreach (glob("")) { print ++$x.". $_\n"; } ^Z 1. apache 2. bin 3. cgi-bin 4. ftpd 5. httpd 6. iissamples 7. mysql 8. scripts 9. uia Orders, Sir? [download] Apart from the current directory and the parent directory, everything got listed, exactly as it would on a real system. (and I know the contents of \usr\local don't look too much like an NT box, but beleive me! It is! I just don't like the stuff that ships with NT)	[reply] [d/l]
RE: Re: file with a blank in its name by takshaka (Friar) on May 08, 2000 at 06:48 UTC
Well, to close the book on the tests, I checked ActiveState 522 on Win98SE and got the same results as on NT. <*> returns long filenames--with or without extensions, with or without spaces--and does not do an implicit split on the list when assigning to an array. I can't reproduce the behavior cited by the OP. However, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, I still believe there are some issues with 522's glob.	[reply]