How to handle filenames with spaces?

Question

I use Perl on windows(Active Perl). I have a perl program to glob the files in current folder, and concatenate them all using dos copy command called from within using syste

Answer 1

Issues may arise when you're trying to access the variable $_ inside an inner block. The safest way, change:

foreach (@files)

to:

foreach $file (@files)

Then do the necessary changes on @args, and escape doublequotes to include them in the string..

@args = ('copy' ,"/b ","\"$file\"","+","$outfile", "$outfile");
...
@args = ('copy' ,"/b ","$outfile","+","\"$file\"", "$outfile");