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I've been trying to wrap my brain around this for a little while, and I
don't think I've been completely successful, but here's my stab at what's
wrong.
You stated, I think, that line 27 worked and line 29 did not. Line 27 was
properly escaped...
> 27 #chdir("/Volumes/Music\ Tunes/Toad\ Music") || die "cant
> open that, sorry: $!";
.... so are you sure you did that to $folder_a? If the path in that
variable isn't properly escaped, you'll be sunk. Bear in mind, it may look
correct when printed, but you'll need those escape sequences to stick
spaces in the path (I think.) My experience with MacOS is *extremely*
limited, so I may be making that up. I make a lot of similar contortions
on Win32 to make paths with spaces work.
Another shot in the dark: you might want to check out File::Spec, for some
help cleaning up your paths.
If you could explain some more about what the function needs to do that
might help. You might be going about something awkwardly. As for no chdir
on MacOS, I did a few Google searches and didn't come up with anything
indicating that chdir was broken or nonexistent on any platform Perl supports.
Later,
Sean.
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