Greetings Monkdom,

I'm running into some weirdness when trying to glob files when the directory name has spaces. This is on Win NT or 2000 running 5.6.1 build 631.

## case 1, with spaces in dir name
my $dir = 'C:/foo/bar baz/';
## this works ok
my @xlfiles = <"$dir*.xls">;

## case 2, no spaces in dir name
$dir = 'C:/foo/bar_baz/';
## this does not work...
@xlfiles = <"$dir*.xls">;
## but this does...
@xlfiles = <$dir*.xls>;

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So my question is, what is the proper way to glob assuming that you may or may not have spaces in a directory file name? I've also tried all combinations of the glob operator with no luck...

glob("$dir*.xls") acts like <$dir*.xls>

Currently, I test for the presence of spaces and select the format that works with either case 1 or case 2, like this... 
if ( "$dir" =~ /.*\s+.*/ ) {
   @xlfiles = <"$dir*.xls">;
} else {
   @xlfiles = <$dir*.xls>;
}

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but this seems kind of Harkonian. Any suggestions?

Regards, chinman

In reply to file globbing heck by chinman

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