Re^2: regex die?

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Re^3: regex die? by johngg (Canon) on Mar 19, 2006 at 23:51 UTC
Six of one, a half dozen of the other unless /path/to/file contains spaces. It easily could, of course, but I mainly work on Unix-like systems so it is a bit of a blind spot with me :-) Cheers JohnGG	[reply]
Re^4: regex die? by GrandFather (Saint) on Mar 19, 2006 at 23:58 UTC
OP did include a space in his match set and also \, both of which are a bit of a hint. :) I was under the impression the nix could handle spaces in directories/file names in any case - it's just that because no one much uses them, nix applications are even worse at being robust against spaces than Windows applications are. /me puts his stiring stick back in the corner. :) DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel	[reply]
Re^4: regex die? by ayrnieu (Beadle) on Mar 19, 2006 at 23:57 UTC
Alas, paths come with spaces even on unix.	[reply]
Re^5: regex die? by johngg (Canon) on Mar 20, 2006 at 09:38 UTC
They can come with all sorts of interesting characters, even non-printing ones which makes the output of `ls` interesting. What I mean is, you don't normally create files with spaces when footling around in the shell so it is less likely that you will have a `/path/to/script` with spaces. You often get paths with spaces on partitions that have been Samba shared to MS Windows boxes, "New Folder" being prevalent :-( Cheers, JohnGG	[reply] [d/l] [select]