spaces in filepath on Win32

watakushi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello all! I'm writing Perl script for Win32 environment that should execute Tcl script at the end. My problem is that I have a problem when using filepath that includes spaces:

system ("D:/\RSA Security/\RSA Authentication Manager/\utils/\tcl/\BIN/\tcl-sd.exe $ARGV[1]");

it generates follwing error: 'D:/RSA' is not recognized as an internal or external command. Do you have any idea how to solve this?

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Re: spaces in filepath on Win32 by b4swine (Pilgrim) on Oct 05, 2007 at 11:02 UTC
Windows needs quotes around the name with spaces, so windows wants to see: `"D:\RSA Security\RSA Authentication Manager\utils\tcl\BIN\tcl-sd.exe" +$ARGV[1]` [download] To do this then, you need to `system ("\"D:\\RSA Security\\RSA Authentication Manager\\utils\\tcl\\B +IN\\tcl-sd.exe\" $ARGV[1]");` [download] or nicer looking is `system '"D:\RSA Security\RSA Authentication Manager\utils\tcl\BIN\tcl- +sd.exe"', $ARGV[1];` [download] By the way, in the `"D:/\RSA.."` the `/\` sequence is all wrong	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: spaces in filepath on Win32 by moritz (Cardinal) on Oct 05, 2007 at 10:59 UTC
You could use the LIST form of system: `system($path, $ARGV[1]);` Where `$path` may contain whitespaces. Perl 6 in German	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: spaces in filepath on Win32 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Oct 05, 2007 at 13:50 UTC
I have a problem when using filepath that includes spaces If I was ever to offer a list of advice for Win32 users, then, at the top of the list would be: 1) Don't ever, under any circumstances, put anything into a directory whose name includes one or more spaces; Is that mentioned anywhere on MSDN ? I doubt those Redmond dickheads are capable of offering such basic, common-sense, advice ... correct me if I'm wrong ... Sorry ... sounds overly harsh, doesn't it ... I'm not innately anti-Microsoft ... but then I got hold of Vista ('nuff said). (Been struggling tonight with 'unresolved reference to _iob' - which is prototyped in stdio.h, fer chrissake !) Cheers, Rob	[reply]