Dear Monks

Sorry for pestering you once again with my noob questions. I changed the script according to your recommendations. So far no more BOM errors and everything seems to be working as planned.

However, I got the following error message the meaning of which I am not quite sure of. Maybe one of you could shed some light on this (I used Carp::Always, as one of you suggested). I had to anonymise the code for I guess you know why....

Error opendir on 'Z:/123/xyz/xyz/xyz_xyz_xyz_/01_abc': 
No such file or directory at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Path/Tiny.pm 
+line 1490.
Path::Tiny::Error::throw("Path::Tiny::Error", "opendir", "Z:/2014/xyz/
+xyz/xyz_xyz_xyz_/01_abc"") 
called at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Path/Tiny.pm line 126

Path::Tiny::_throw(Path::Tiny=ARRAY(0x2774f74), "opendir") called at C
+:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Path/Tiny.pm line 532
Path::Tiny::children(Path::Tiny=ARRAY(0x2774f74), qr(\.xml$)u) called 
+at script.pl line 59
main::RetrieveAndBackupXML("Z:/123/xyz/xyz/xyz_xyz_xyz_/01_abc\\0"...)
+ 
called at script.pl line 31

main::Main() called at script.pl line 20
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In my opinion, the error is telling me that neither the folder nor the files exist (well, you cannot access the files if you cannot access the folder.

Question is why is the programm throwing this error message, the folders do exist as indicated by the path names I am reading out.

Is it problem if I access a network-drive? Would that be another building block that would bloat the script and provide with me with yet another topic to read about?

A penny for your thoughts.

Kind regards

Hmm, you say it exists as a directory, does the path contain any unicode codepoints ? What do you get with this program

#!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump qw/ dd /;
use Win32;
use Win32::Unicode qw/ statW /;

my $path = 'Z:/123/xyz/xyz/xyz_xyz_xyz_/01_abc';

dd( $path );
dd({ -ansi, Win32::GetANSIPathName( $path ) });
dd({ -full, scalar Win32::GetFullPathName( $path ) });
dd({ -short, Win32::GetShortPathName( $path ) });
dd( statW( $path ) );
__END__
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Dear Anonymous Monk

There might be some umlauts in some of the path names. Would that trigger the alarm?

The initial purpose of the file (before it becam a rather huge project for a novice like me) was to do the following:

read the path in the text-file provided by user

go to each directory specified by the path name

Look for any xml-files and open each one individually

in each xml-file replace certain strings

create a backup of the xml(s)

close the file(s)

close the directory

Hope that helps (it did for me to get an initial idea what I was going to do step by step)

Looking forward to your reply. Thanks for your help

Kind regards

C.