Re: Win file/dir names w/spaces

You appear to have answers to your questions from various monks.

Seeing the amount of code you wrote for your tests, I thought I'd introduce you to the built-in module Test::More.

I don't have Perl running on an MSWin platform (so I can't duplicate your exact tests) but the following should give you an idea of how much coding this module can save you. I also think that, with the substantially reduced code, the tests themselves become far more obvious and the code is more readable and maintainable.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Test::More tests => 3;

ok(-e '/Users/ken/tmp/Sample Music', 'Single quotes');
ok(-e "/Users/ken/tmp/Sample Music", 'Double quotes');
ok(-e "'/Users/ken/tmp/Sample Music'", 'Single quotes in double quotes
+');
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Output:

1..3
ok 1 - Single quotes
ok 2 - Double quotes
not ok 3 - Single quotes in double quotes
#   Failed test 'Single quotes in double quotes'
#   at ./pm_example.pl line 10.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 3.
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-- Ken

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Re^2: Win file/dir names w/spaces by LloydRice (Beadle) on Mar 26, 2014 at 10:16 UTC
Thanks to all who weighed in on this. I have learned a lot. Judging by the tone of many of the replies, some will be glad to hear that I have started using "strict" (at least some of the time). However, it turns out that the real problem was that I was mixing Perl functions for file operations with Win command lines executed via qx. What I had not considered (and learned) was that qx actions go through the Win command line interpreter, but the Perl functions, in particular, the -x tests, do not. The difference is, of course, that path/file names with spaces get chopped up by the CLI and thus required enclosing Dquotes, but work fine in the -x tests, in which case, the Dquotes mess things up. I am now using the Perl file operations in Win32::File and Win32::CopyFile and nearly everything is working. A little more clean-up and the job will be done. Again, thanks for all the help. Lloyd.	[reply]

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Re^2: Win file/dir names w/spaces
by LloydRice (Beadle) on Mar 26, 2014 at 10:16 UTC

Thanks to all who weighed in on this. I have learned a lot. Judging by the tone of many of the replies, some will be glad to hear that I have started using "strict" (at least some of the time).

However, it turns out that the real problem was that I was mixing Perl functions for file operations with Win command lines executed via qx. What I had not considered (and learned) was that qx actions go through the Win command line interpreter, but the Perl functions, in particular, the -x tests, do not. The difference is, of course, that path/file names with spaces get chopped up by the CLI and thus required enclosing Dquotes, but work fine in the -x tests, in which case, the Dquotes mess things up.

I am now using the Perl file operations in Win32::File and Win32::CopyFile and nearly everything is working. A little more clean-up and the job will be done.

Again, thanks for all the help.

Lloyd.

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