Re: OT: Outlook wants to terminate links at whitespace

[Albannach]

To start with, I'd use single quotes in you definition of $mydir so as to avoid escaping your slashes, make it easier to read, and provide a visual cue that no interpolation is going on here.

In Outlook, you can use angle brackets to contain your links, which works with either style of link and avoids the need for %20 spaces:

<file://X:\mydir\my spaced dir\>

or

<\\myserver\mymappeddir\mydir\my spaced dir\>

Update: Bah! Please ignore my bad advice on quoting, though the Outlook comment still holds. I don't know what I was thinking. Thanks to ikegami and blazar.

[ikegami]

I'd use single quotes in you definition of $mydir so as to avoid escaping your slashes

He'd still have to escape one of them (the first one). I usually escape them all to avoid problems down the road.

[blazar]

To start with, I'd use single quotes in you definition of $mydir so as to avoid escaping your slashes, make it easier to read, and provide a visual cue that no interpolation is going on here.

While I second that, ITYM backslashes, and sometimes they do need to be escaped in single quotes too; moreover prefixing a backslash with another one does escape it, yielding a single one:

$ perl -l
print for '\'foo', '\\\'foo', '\foo', '\\foo'
'foo
\'foo
\foo
\foo