Re: Opening a text file in its native application

[sk]

in reply to Opening a text file in its native application

Start does not like spaces in the dir names (even if you quote them). Here is one way -

use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Basename;

my @args = ("start/d", "c:/program files/T.txt");

my $file = pop(@args);
push (@args, '"'. dirname($file) . '"', basename($file));

system(@args) == 0 or die $@;

(This will not work for filenames with spaces, not sure if start can handle it anyways).

-SK

[FM]

Hi SK,

This is wonderful! It works!

Thank you so much!

Claire