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As Tanktalus said, you want m/\s/.

But watch out. If a space in the file name can cause a given script to crash, there are other bad things that can also turn up in file names (also as a result of "pilot error", but hey, it happens, as we all know), and these can do more damage than just crashing your script.

(I've seen some MS-Windows users put ampersands in file names. Imagine the fun you can have with that in a unix shell environment.)

My point is: If the script crashes because there is a space in the file name, there is actually a deeper problem with the script, in terms of what it is doing with the variable(s) that hold the file name(s) -- e.g. passing the variable as part of a quoted string to a shell command (in back-ticks or in a "system()" call) -- and it would be very prudent to fix that (using quotemeta, multi-arg system call, totally different logic, etc). Now. Before the next "unexpected" mistake turns up in a file name.


In reply to Re: Quick RegExp question by graff
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