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Just quote it and everything will be fine: 
open (SPACEY, "this file has spaces.txt") || die;

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Re: Answer: How do you open a filehandle to a DOS file which has spaces in the filename?
by scottstef (Curate) on Mar 15, 2001 at 10:00 UTC
    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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      my $filename = "this file has spaces.txt"
open (SPACEY, "$filename") || die;

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      Hardcoded filenames are unwise. Shouldn't the above work also? Didn't seem to.
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