Fellow Perlish People,
I know this is a problem that's been conquered many times before, but the answer, at present, eludes me. I'm working on a Win2k box with Activestate Perl 5.6. Disk is NTFS format. I need to process all of the files in a directory. The directory name is very long and has spaces in it.
I have followed the recipes in the Cookbook, and they work as long as there are *no* spaces in the path. But when I have a path name like "d:\my documents\my other stuff\*.*" it fails.
Specifically, here is my code: 
$thispath = 'd:\my documents\my other stuff\*.*';
print "thispath is [$thispath]\n";

@thisdir = glob($thispath);
foreach $thisfile (@thisdir) {
  print "    Found [$thisfile]\n";
}

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And the output I get is: 
thispath is [d:\my documents\my other stuff\*.*]
    Found [d:./my]
    Found [docsmy]

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The actual directory has this: 
12/11/2000  07:49p      <DIR>          .
12/11/2000  07:49p      <DIR>          ..
12/11/2000  07:42p                 480 dir.pl
12/11/2000  07:52p                 185 dir2.pl
12/11/2000  07:53p                   0 out.txt
12/11/2000  11:00a               1,125 populate.pl

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However, if I replace the full path with ".\*.*", I get this: 
thispath is [.\*.*]
    Found [.\dir.pl]
    Found [.\dir2.pl]
    Found [.\out.txt]
    Found [.\populate.pl]

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I can't seem to find anything on CPAN for this, though I know there must be something somewhere. FYI: I've also tried using opendir, as suggested in another article on this site. Is this a problem with Globbing, or with how the file names are stored in the list?
Any random thoughts? Any specific ones?
Much Thanks.
--Mark

In reply to Long Directory Names by markwild

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