Re: Answer: How do you open a filehandle to a DOS file which has spaces in the filename?

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Thanks a lot, i also dealt with issue for several hours and could not find a solution in any of my manuals. Wish I knew how to use the search feature a little better when i wrote this code.

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Re: Re: Answer: How do you open a filehandle to a DOS file which has spaces in the filename? by Anonymous Monk on May 07, 2004 at 07:50 UTC
`my $filename = "this file has spaces.txt" open (SPACEY, "$filename") \|\| die;` [download] Hardcoded filenames are unwise. Shouldn't the above work also? Didn't seem to.	[reply] [d/l]

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