Re: how to open a file with space in its name

Use the list version of system, which is safer anyway:

my @cmd = ($ENV{COMSPEC}, "/c", "start", "soffice.exe", $file);
system(@cmd) == 0
  or die "Couldn't launch @cmd: $! / $?";
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Re^2: how to open a file with space in its name by bart (Canon) on Jan 06, 2006 at 01:19 UTC
Until very recently, perl on Win32 allegedly simply turned the `system LIST` into the `system STRING` version, without adding quotes. In other words, it still wouldn't have worked. I'm not sure when the backward incompatible change was introduced.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: how to open a file with space in its name by arunmep (Beadle) on Jan 05, 2006 at 08:31 UTC
it was working correctly thank you very much	[reply]