Dear Monks,

I am using Tk for an application on Win32 and wanted to use the most windowish looking chooseDirectory dialog to select a directory. This returns a directory of the sort: 

C:/Documents and Settings/UserX/Desktop/WORK/data/var - 21/dat

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In a next step I need to get all xml files in that directory. Which is the point where I struggle.

Globbing for these values returns an arrat that is split at the spaces and terminates before the -: 

@files = glob( $path . "/*.xml );
print join ( "\n", @files );
<code>
This returns:
<code>
C:/Documents
and
Settings/UserX/Desktop/WORK/data/var

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I have also tried to alter the path to a Dos standard. 

$path =~ s/\//\\\\/g;
$path =~ s/\ /\\\ /g;

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And then globbed without results.

And I also tried to use File::DosGlob.

Both of the last efforts did return an empty array from the glob function. Does anyone know what the bast way to tackle this problem is?


Cheers,
PerlingTheUK

In reply to Tk::chooseDirectory and glob problem by PerlingTheUK

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