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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:20:28AM -0500, David Nicol wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Mark Mielke <mark@mark.mielke.cc> wrote:
> > Specifically, \Q...\E will prefix certain characters with '\', and this will
> > make it impossible to represent file names with the same special characters
> > (the theoretical filenames with '|', '<' or '>') but that are not escaped in
> > the file name.
>
> phooey.
>
> Prefixing < takes care of opening and reading files with pipes and so
> on in them, but leading/trailing space seems impossible to represent
> with a 2-arg open.
It has been documented for a long, long time how to solve this:
my $file = " hello ";
open my $fh, "< ./$file\0";
Granted, "\0" is a bit of an oddity, but it is possibly. And you don't
need sysopen.
I think the current documentation is in perlopentut.
Abigail
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