[sf-perl] Windows Perl question

[nheller at silcon.com]

Here's a short example script.  My system can't find the executable.  I'm
sure there must be an easy solution - but what?

#!Perl  -w

use warnings;
use strict;

my $commLine = qw "\"\\Program
Files\\Rational\\ClearCase\\bin\\clearexplorer.exe\"";

system $commLine;

my $foo = 1;

Neil Heller


> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:12:12PM -0800, Michael Friedman wrote:
>
>> Sometimes it pays to ask the seemingly obvious question...
>> Did you try putting the path in quotes?
>
> Exactly my thought.
>
>> How about escaping the space?  "Program\ Files".
>
> In Windows, I believe, you'd have to do something like this:
>
>     system qq{chdir "Program Files"};
>     # or
>     system qq{chdir "$dir"};
>
> --the reason being that the Windows command shell doesn't have single
> quotes the way bash (for instance) does.
>
> Caveat hacker:  I don't have a Windows box, so I didn't test this.  I'm
> just going from memory.
>
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