That's true from a command line. But the original post says SWISH::API 
and the docs for that say:

$swish = SWISH::API->new( $index_files );

     This method returns a swish handle object blessed into the 
SWISH::API class. $index_files is a space separated list of index files 
to open.

I have tried that and it works: a single scalar of space-separated index 
files seems to be what the ::API expects. So I think the problem here is 
something else...

David L Norris wrote on 06/17/2004 02:56 PM:

> 
> This is how the command should be called:
>   swish-e -f "this is a single file" "this is a second file"
> 
> The error suggests that you're calling SWISH-E like this:
>   swish-e -f "this is a single file this is a second file"
> 

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