Re: [MacPerl] problem with open()

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

At 06.20 -0500 1998.11.08, Andy White wrote:
>Some apps create filenames with trailing spaces - I personally don't, but I
>haven't read anywhere that MacOS dissallows this. Anyway, the following
>snippet fails to work for any such filenames:

As the documentation for open states:

# The filename that is passed to open will have leading and trailing
# whitespace deleted.  To open a file with arbitrary weird characters in
# it, it's necessary to protect any leading and trailing whitespace
# thusly:
#
# 		    $file =~ s#^(\s)#./$1#;
# 		    open(FOO, "< $file\0");

... but now that I look at the solution, I don't see how it would help with
the leading whitespace in MacPerl.  Just make sure that there is no leading
whitespace.  So for relative paths, put a ':' in front if it is not already
there.  For absolute paths where the volume name has whitespace in front, I
think you are screwed.

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