On May 11, Jason Dusek said:
>How do I get the wanted function in a find call to ignore file names
>with spaces in them? I want to catch all files with the suffii '.pro'
>and .'idl' but some Windows user has put files like 'Foo Bar Har.pro' on
>the system. I am trying:
>
> sub wanted {
> if (/\.(pro|idl)$/ && !/\w+\s+\w+/) {
> ## do some fancy stuff
> }
> }
>
>but the evil files with spaces in their names seem to be slipping
>through the regexp. Any suggestions?
I would just do:
if (/\.(pro|idl)$/ and !/\s/) { ... }
You can't be sure how the spaces are going to appear, so just make sure
there aren't any.
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