Artimus has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Mongers!

Need your help with Cyrillic names. Here is the simple code: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use locale;
use Cyrillic;
chomp (my $interest = <STDIN>);
print_dir ($interest);
sub print_dir {
    chdir shift;
    foreach (glob "./*"){
        print $_ ,"\n";
        };
}

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then I type *C:/Users/Артём/* , ofc without "*" and it prints only the files of ./ directory - chdir fails! How can I fix this? My Username is in Cyrillic symbols and I want Perl to understand it...

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Re: Cyrillic names of directories
by kcott (Archbishop) on Mar 13, 2014 at 02:20 UTC

    G'day Artimus,

    The first thing I recommend you do is read the chdir documentation and understand how it behaves in the event of failure. Then hand-craft code to give you a customised message (when it fails) or let the autodie pragma do it for you (which is a lot less work and my preference).

    I created a directory called Артём and added a few empty files for testing: 

    $ ls -l Артём
total 0
-rw-r--r--  1 ken  staff  0 13 Mar 12:20 test1
-rw-r--r--  1 ken  staff  0 13 Mar 12:20 test2
-rw-r--r--  1 ken  staff  0 13 Mar 12:21 test3

    Then I ran this example code twice: first with a non-existent directory and then with Артём: 

    #!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use autodie;

print 'DIR? ';
chomp(my $dir = <STDIN>);
chdir $dir;
print "$_\n" for glob './*';

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    Sample runs:

    DIR? not_a_dir
Can't chdir('not_a_dir'): No such file or directory at ...

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    DIR? Артём
./test1
./test2
./test3

    I suggest you try this and see what output you get.

    Assuming the issue isn't that you've just mistyped the directory name, it might be related to the drive letter (C:) in the directory name. I don't have access to Perl on any MSWin systems so I can't test that for you but many others here can: report your results and, if it's a portability issue, I'm sure someone can help you.

    [I used <pre>...</pre> (or <tt>...</tt>) tags where necesary to display the Cyrillic; <code>...</code> (or <c>...</c>) tags display numeric character entity references. You may need to do the same when reporting your results.]

    -- Ken

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Re: Cyrillic names of directories
by choroba (Cardinal) on Mar 12, 2014 at 18:24 UTC
    Did you tell Perl what encoding your STDIN uses?
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      erm, could you write required code modifications please?
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Re: Cyrillic names of directories
by roboticus (Chancellor) on Mar 12, 2014 at 19:40 UTC

    Artemis:

    Try chomping your directory name before passing it to print_dir. It worked for me after doing so.

    ...roboticus

    When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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      Am I not doing so?
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        Artimus:

        Sorry, I missed that. Try checking for errors from chdir to determine when and why it fails.

        I just read the documentation for the Cyrillic module: It seems that it's not intended to help you translate the user input strings to unicode. It appears to be a way for you to use Cyrillic in your scripts. However, I've not finished my coffee this morning, and I find the documentation a bit difficult to read.

        ...roboticus

        When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb.

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Re: Cyrillic names of directories (Win32::Unicode)
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 13, 2014 at 03:36 UTC
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Re: Cyrillic names of directories
by zentara (Cardinal) on Mar 13, 2014 at 12:23 UTC
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