Re: [MacPerl] problem specifying path

[bart.lateur@skynet.be (Bart Lateur)]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 22:22:53 -0500, Paul N. Schatz wrote:

>open (IN,  '  7500HD :Utilities:MacPerl =3D9F:README') or die;

>=3D09The script doesn't work, and the reason is the blank spaces which
>occur in the name of my hard drive:  There are two blank spaces at the
>beginning and one at the end of "  7500HD ".

>I have tried everything I can think of to get the script to work

I wish that putting a "\0" in front of the filename would help to stop
Perl from stripping too much. It doesn't, I'm afraid. It only helps at
the end of the name. You could call it a bug; it is probably caused by
C's string convention.

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=3D09Bart.

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