Hi Prad,

Use File::Basename module to get the path andf file name.

use File::Basename;
$pathandfile='C:\temp\foo foo\foo foo.txt';
($filename, $path)=fileparse($pathandfile);

print "$path = $filename";
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Illustration the above code:

fileparse - split a pathname into pieces

filename - extract just the filename from a path

path - extract just the directory from a path
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I would like to know how to read the file names or folder names if there are spaces between them.

Example->

Folder name = foo goo

Said this, I think I can understand that you have some paths comprising directory and file names having spaces in them. So far, so fine! Then one should understand what you mean with "I would like to know how to read"...

open shouldn't have any problem with such filenames, e.g.:

open my $fh, '<', 'filename with spaces' or die $!;
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All in all experience shows that speaking Perl is more effective, communication-wise than speaking (a fuzzy) English.

My code ( sorry cannot publish the code ) reads the file names and folder names when there is no space between them precisely.

#!/perl

open( FILE, ">", "this is a test . txt" );
print FILE "yeah";
close( FILE );

open( FILE, "<", "this is a test . txt" );
while (my $line = <FILE>)
{
    print $line;
}
close( FILE );
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#!/perl

mkdir( "another test" );

open( FILE, ">", "another test/this is a test . txt" );
print FILE "yes, yeah";
close( FILE );

open( FILE, "<", "another test/this is a test . txt" );
while (my $line = <FILE>)
{
    print $line;
}
close( FILE );
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