Re: OT: Outlook wants to terminate links at whitespace

in reply to OT: Outlook wants to terminate links at whitespace

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

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Re^2: OT: Outlook wants to terminate links at whitespace by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 20, 2006 at 22:18 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re^2: OT: Outlook wants to terminate links at whitespace by blazar (Canon) on Oct 21, 2006 at 11:05 UTC
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` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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