Win32 File Path problem

PerlingTheUK has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dearest Monks,
I have a problem with file paths in windows. I need to glob for all files in a directory. Unfortunately the directory includes whitespaces and therefore falls over:

@fs = glob("D\:\/Leamington\ 24\.11\.05\/Leamington" . "\/*.dat")
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This only returns D\:\/Leamington
I used quotemeta to convert the filepath and files at the location exist and can be found if I remove the whitespace.
If I try using File::DosGlob @fs is empty.

Cheers,
PerlingTheUK

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Re: Win32 File Path problem by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 25, 2005 at 12:33 UTC
If you want sane behaviour for `glob`, you should overwrite it with the sane implementation in File::DosGlob: `use File::DosGlob qw(bsd_glob); print join "\n", glob "d:/Leamington 24.11.05/Leamington/*.dat";` [download] Also, you don't need to use backslashes on Win32 - the Win32 API understands forward slashes as directory delimiters as well.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Win32 File Path problem by GrandFather (Saint) on Nov 25, 2005 at 11:02 UTC
From the File::DosGlob documentation: If you want to put in literal spaces in the glob pattern, you can escape them with either double quotes, or backslashes. e.g. glob('c:/"Program Files"//.dll'), or glob('c:/Program\ Files//.dll'). DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^2: Win32 File Path problem by PerlingTheUK (Hermit) on Nov 25, 2005 at 11:17 UTC
I know, but I did not know that the escaped forward slashed `quotemeta` inserts are not supported by DosGlob. I have replaced quotemeta with `$s =~ s/\ /\\ /g;` and it works fine now. Thanks for the help. Cheers, PerlingTheUK	[reply] [d/l] [select]