Question

I’m trying to open a file with path contains space, say:

open(FILE, "some\\path with spaces")

I’m working with ccperl on Windows, and I get an error “can’t open file”.

I’ve already tried q!"..."! tried "\path\ with\ spaces" and many more…

Any idea?

Answer 1

Let’s see. On my ActivePerl 5.14.2 I can do the following, which works:

#!C:\perl\bin\perl.exe
use strict; use warnings;
open my $fh, '<', 'C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\user\Desktop\file spaces.txt'
  or die $!;
print while <$fh>;
close $fh;

The difference to what you’ve done is that I used single quotes '. Inside them, the backslash \ is not seen as a meta character, so there’s no need to escape it. You also do not need to escape the spaces. You should try that out.

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On a side note, are you using strict and warnings? They might tell you what is wrong, as well as my or die $! might.

I’d also suggest you use the three argument form of open and lexical filehandles.