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Re: Using wildcards to open files.

by muba (Priest)
on Oct 25, 2012 at 15:50 UTC ( [id://1000892]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Using wildcards to open files.

Do any of those .msg files have spaces in their names?

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Re^2: Using wildcards to open files.
by starface245 (Novice) on Oct 25, 2012 at 15:52 UTC
    Yes it does have spaces in the name.
      That's causing your problem. You are only using the chunk before the first space for each file.

      I haven't had a chance to test this in your exact usage situation, but try the following. It replaces spaces in the file names with escaped spaces.

      #!/usr/bin/perl @files = glob("*.msg"); foreach $file(@files) { $file =~ s/ /\\\ /g; $cmd = "perl script.pl < $file"; system($cmd); }

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