Re: filename with question mark

[kcott]

in reply to filename with question mark

G'day Brian,

Welcome to the monastery.

I also have Mac OS X Lion (10.7.5); I'm running Perl v5.14.2.

File::Find and $File::Find::name work for me:

$ ls -l abc?
-rw-r--r--  1 ken  staff  0  4 Oct 03:13 abc?

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E '
use File::Find;
sub wanted { /\?$/ && say $File::Find::name }
find(\&wanted, q{.});
'
./abc?

Filename completion also works. If I type ls -l abc<TAB><RETURN>, I get:

$ ls -l abc\? 
-rw-r--r--  1 ken  staff  0  4 Oct 03:42 abc?

Please post enough of file_collector.pl to reproduce your problem.

[bdugay]

Hi Ken, thanks for testing. The last character of your file appears to be different than mine. I don't think providing my code at this point is relevant. Going by Anonymous' comment, I'll investigate how to handle file with what appears to be a ^M (\r) at the end of a filename. -Brian

[Anonymous Monk]

I'll investigate how to handle file with what appears to be a ^M (\r) at the end of a filename. -Brian

Well, it really shouldn't need special handling, other than making sure when you warn/die... the filename is escaped, because \r among other chars doesn't show up well in console :)( Basic debugging checklist )

open should just open the file, so first thing to try is feeding it proper Dumpered filename -- if that works, you know what to work on next, which is

how the filename gets to your program, if its readdir, it should work, if its @ARGV or something else, you might need to decode utf8 ... see utf8, how to unicode filenames?, how to make a filename in unicode characters