Hello, Newbie here,

I am trying to use a while loop to read through all of the values in a file, but the filenames contain an '@'.

I have the directory path in a variable, and the filenames in an array. So far I have tried using quotemeta to backslash special characters, which seems to print the correct values but this does not seem to work in my open command. I think maybe I have a problem with using the correct quoting??

Thanks in advance for any help, here is what I have so far:

 my $Line_QC = "/full/directory/path";


    opendir(DIR, "$Line_QC") or die $!;
          my @files_array 
             = grep { /^35_/ && -f "$Nav_Line_QC/098/$_"}
readdir(DIR);

   my $diag_file = quotemeta"@files_array[0]";



print "@diag_files_array[0]\n";
     # prints: 35_Diag_098_a098@421424012017.txt

print "$diag_file\n";            
     # prints: 35_Diag_098_a098\@421424012017\.txt


open ( DIAG, "$diag_file" ) ||die ("Failed: $!");
    while (my $line = <DIAG>) {
      if ($line =~ /Line/) {
             print "$line\n";
           };
    };              # Close while loop
close ( DIAG );

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Running this gives me the error: No such file or directory at perlTest line 60.

In reply to Dealing with files that contain '@' in the filename by elef4nt

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