Hi,

I'm trying to write a piece of code that will replace the contents of @ARGV with actual valid files which exist in a certain directory. I need to allow for wildcards ('*' only), spaces in file names and when a user specifies a directory I need to include the contents of that directory.

This is what I have so far: 
use File::Find::Rule;
my $root_in = "E:/PGPTool/dept/AIS/dropbox";

aprint "Before:\n";
foreach (@ARGV) {
   print "$_\n";
}   

# replace wildcards and directories in @ARGV with actual files/folders
@ARGV = map glob ("$root_in/$_"), @ARGV;
eval { @ARGV = find (file => in => \@ARGV) };
foreach (@ARGV) { $_ =~ s/($root_in\/)(.+)/$2/; }

print "\nAfter:\n";
foreach (@ARGV) {
   print "$_\n";
}

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The only problem is it won't work for files with spaces in the name - the '@ARGV = map glob ...' line uses the space as a delimiter and assumes eg 'file1 .txt' is refering to two files : 'file1' and '.txt'.

I tried inserting apostrophes : 
glob ("'$root_in/$_'"), @ARGV;

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which fixes the problem, but brakes it for files which do not contain spaces.

Anyone any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks,
A

In reply to Replacing specified files with actual files using map glob by Anonymous Monk

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