Re: glob operator problems

The glob docs say this:

Note that "glob" will split its arguments on whitespace,
               treating each segment as separate pattern.
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Great. How do I get around that? I tried escaping the space:

my @files = glob "/Volumes/NIKON\ D5000/*.*";
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Ah. I was in windows hell. I need two backslashes so that the literal '\ ' is seen by perl? The shell?

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Re^2: glob operator problems by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 15, 2010 at 06:06 UTC
Or use `bsd_glob` from File::Glob. The only difference between the two is that `bsd_glob` doesn't treat spaces specially. Ah. I was in windows hell. I need two backslashes so that the literal '\ ' is seen by perl? The shell? That's undeserved Microsoft bashing. Not only does the shell not do what you say, it would actually be a good thing if it did! No, the problem is with using an unescaped slash in double quotes.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: glob operator problems by matze77 (Friar) on Jan 15, 2010 at 06:35 UTC
I would not use "\" even on windows paths it makes the pathnames "ugly" id rather use perl syntax (Perl converts it to the systems needs): e.g.: c:/my/path/ ... Thanks MH	[reply]
Re^4: glob operator problems by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 15, 2010 at 06:47 UTC
You're wrong about Perl converting them. It passes paths to Windows unmodified. "/" works as a path separator because Windows accepts both "\" and "/" as path separators.	[reply]