'ls' question, splitting and files with spaces in their name...

[Jim Rootham]

Hi Madison

Try adding the switch, then substituting a magic char for the escape-blank
combo, then do the split.  Check for magic char first if you're paranoid.

BTW why s/\n// rather than chomp?

Jim

>
>   My problem is that I am just straight splitting on spaces and some
>files and directory names have spaces in them. I read the 'ls' man page
>and the closest thing I could find was a switch to add an escape
>character before the space but that would only be marginally helpful.
>
>   What I need is some way to show the file or directory name with some
>other character instead of a space so that the first split will leave
>the file or directory name intact wherein after I could substitute the
>space back.
>
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