Re: how to open a file with space in its name

I amd assuming that you are using Windows - A file path with embedded spaces needs to be delimited by double quotes. Add escaped double quotes around your $file. This is what you would have to do if you typed in the command yourself.

sub{system "start soffice \"$file\""})
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As mentioned previously, the new style of system command removes this ambiguity and will make for a more portable program.

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Re^2: how to open a file with space in its name by suaveant (Parson) on Jan 05, 2006 at 15:35 UTC
If one is trying to escape filenames etc in a situation like this I prefer `"start soffice \Q$file\E";` [download] to `"start soffice \"$file\"";` [download] that way anything weird in the string is escaped, including " chars that may be in it... of course, the list version of system is safer. - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: how to open a file with space in its name by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 05, 2006 at 15:37 UTC
Which will not work for Win32 filenames, as a file named `c\:\\autoexec\.bat` does not exist. Also, the quoting rule of double quotes (`"`) is different for `cmd.exe` too - `""` gets converted to `"`, `"""` gets converted to `""` and so on. I think. In any case, `quotemeta` is not what you want when quoting strings for `cmd.exe` or `command.com`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: how to open a file with space in its name by suaveant (Parson) on Jan 05, 2006 at 16:44 UTC
Too true... I have written Perl on Windows all of about twice, so I tend to be biased towards Unix-style programming, my bad. - Ant - Some of my best work - (1 2 3)	[reply]
Re^2: how to open a file with space in its name by Anonymous Monk on Nov 04, 2008 at 13:30 UTC
In unix , how can we open a file with space in its name. Please paste the command and help me out.	[reply]
Re^3: how to open a file with space in its name by ikegami (Patriarch) on Nov 04, 2008 at 13:44 UTC
Use the multiple argument version of system	[reply]


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