Spaces in Directory Name can't open file

coreolyn has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Arrg,

Why developers put spaces in directory names I'll never know. It's created a condition where I can't figure out how to use open on the files successfully. If I ls from the shell on the value of interpolated variable (used quotes around the offending directory) it shows up fine, but it fails when I try to open it.

Humbly Submitted, coreolyn

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Re: Spaces in Directory Name can't open file by blakem (Monsignor) on Nov 21, 2001 at 05:05 UTC
The 3 argument form of `open` should deal with the whitespace properly: `open(FILE, '<', $filename);` [download] -Blake	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Spaces in Directory Name can't open file by coreolyn (Parson) on Nov 21, 2001 at 05:07 UTC
I new as soon as I ask the question I'd find an answer. Getting rid of the quotes worked surprisingly Update: I'm full of whatever.. after looking at what the code did it just dumped every thing in the wrong dir.. grrr going to try the open 3. Yet another update: Gotta love the camel I ran the `$file =~ s#^(\s)#./$1#;` against it and it solved the prob. coreolyn	[reply] [d/l]