Re^4: Filename Surrounded by Quotes in a Scalar Variable Causes Open to Fail

[roho]

Understood. You're right. If Perl started removing quote characters without permission that would open the door to all sorts of unintended consequences.

I'm focused on developing on Windows at the moment, and I forgot about the other environments (*nix, etc.) that have different rules and allow different characters in filenames.

Thanks again for your input and clarification.

[Marshall]

I currently develop Perl code exclusively on Windows. However, some of my clients run my code on Unix and it almost always works even though I don't test it. My code does not create any filename that would not be a proper Perl variable name. That is more restrictive than it needs to be. However, if I create file "abc_123" (no spaces in the file name) from "abc 123" that does not seem to cause any significant issues for Windows users - they get it.