Hello AtlasFlame,

here you are mixing two problems: path with spaces AND path separator.
With ugly path with spaces you need double quotes around the whole path: 

dir "C:\Local Publish\images"  #OK

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So if you need to pass such a string with doublequotes untouched, for example inside a sigle quote string you need to escape (with '\') all occourences of " you want to be passed unaltered, as in: 

perl -e " $dir = '\"C:\Local Publish\images\"'; system qq(dir $dir  )"
+  #OK

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As personal suggestion avoid to create and use paths with spaces, is a very stupid 'feature'.

Now the path separator part. As far as i know, you can use both '\' and '/' as path separator in windows. This is handy because the '\' happens to be the escape char in Perl. In the command prompt you can safely use: 

dir "C:/Local Publish/images"   #OK

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So you can safely do the same in a Perl program: 

perl -e " $dir = '\"C:/Local Publish/images\"'; system qq(dir $dir  )"
+  #ok

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If you need to interpolate some var inside such strings you need the concatenation operator (the dot '.'):

perl -e " $img = 'images';$dir = '\"C:/Local Publish/'.$img.'\"'; syst
+em qq(dir $dir  )"

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You can use this post as explaination of quotes in Perl and the docs as base rference. Read also the usage hints on windows especially using Perl from command line.

HtH
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In reply to Re^3: how to dir a directory that have space by Discipulus
in thread how to dir a directory that have space by AtlasFlame

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