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use File::Glob 'bsd_glob';
my $path = "c:/Program Files";
# $path =~ s/ /[ ]/g; # Oh, not even required
print $_, $/ for bsd_glob("$path/*");

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Re^2: Whitespace protection in glob expression for Windows network paths (bsd_glob)
by Another Ed (Sexton) on Nov 12, 2014 at 11:24 UTC
    Thanks tye - same suggestion as RichardK's, but with nice succinct code. I've ended up adopting the bsd_glob solution in my scripts, and it works well.
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