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From:
Eric Brine
Date:
September 24, 2013 17:36
Subject:
Re: [perl #119897] glob in threads is broken in perl5.18
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CALJW-qF3we6CjiU1zcGm1uXUB1z02RgkaEM4jDReutbcYMBE3A@mail.gmail.com
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Brian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com> wrote:

> Honestly that seems more useful than splitting on whitespace. Windows uses
> (and users use) spaces in filenames all the time, and whenever I do any
> sort of collab with a non-programmer those inevitably creep in.
>

Wouldn't be a big issue if you could escape the space, but you can't. Gotta
use bsd_glob instead.

>perl -E"say for glob 'c:\\program files\\*'"
c:\program

>perl -E"say for glob 'c:\\program\ files\\*'"

>perl -MFile::Glob=bsd_glob -E"say for bsd_glob 'c:\\program files\\*'" |
find "Common"
c:\program files\Common Files

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