Re: [MacPerl] more on File globbing

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

Wade Williams <wwilliam@cisco.com> writes:
>What I've found is that as long as none of the directories in the path
>contain a space, it works.  However, if any contain a space, it fails.
>
>I then went back and tried:
>
>foreach (<$webpath*>)
>{
>	print $_;
>}
>
>and the same thing occured - if there's a space in the path, it fails.

That's because of the way globbing is implemented in both UNIX and Mac perl.
It cannot be a bug because the UN*X Perl gurus say that nobody is supposed to
use spaces in file names anyway :-)

Matthias

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