Re: Whitespace protection in glob expression for Windows network paths

Does bsd_glob do any better? see File::Glob -- it doesn't split patterns on spaces, so might just give you a better result.

The help for glob suggests a different syntax for passing variables, so you might try that too.

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Re^2: Whitespace protection in glob expression for Windows network paths by Another Ed (Sexton) on Nov 11, 2014 at 15:39 UTC
Thanks RichardK for another good suggestion. I've tried this, and it also seems to do the trick nicely: minimal changes to existing code, and I can dispense with the nested quotes. ~~The only funny was that the File::Glob in my Strawberry Perl doesn't seem to export bsd_glob, so I had to call it by its fully qualified name, but that's no hardship.~~ The only funny is that in the version of File::Glob in Active State Perl 5.10.1, the :bsd_glob export tag isn't recognised, but the function itself is still exported: `use File::Glob 'bsd_glob';`. I see the manual page for File::Glob refers also to File::DosGlob, but I was a little too put off by the latter's manual page to take that idea any further.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Whitespace protection in glob expression for Windows network paths by Another Ed (Sexton) on Nov 11, 2014 at 15:42 UTC
By the way, the "help for glob" to which you refer was what I was following when I first started to code this, and that's what led me into this fine mess.	[reply]